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His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.
Following independence local soldiers that fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas were slaughtered by the thousands.
Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.
Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.
Macao was first settled by Portuguese survivors of the massacres of the Portuguese at Ningbo and at Quanzhou by Chinese government soldiers.
The majority of the defenders were Africans slaves, with only a few Portuguese soldiers and Priests.
* 1139: On July 26, the Portuguese defeat the Almoravids led by Ali ibn Yusuf in the Battle of Ourique ; Prince Afonso Henriques is acclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers.
*** First Battle of Porto: 18, 000 Portuguese soldiers are drowned in a rout after defeat by the French under Marshal Soult.
The Portuguese colony of Angola was founded in 1575 with the arrival of Paulo Dias de Novais with a hundred families of colonists and four hundred soldiers.
The Portuguese introduced mercenaries into Timor communities and Timor chiefs hired Portuguese soldiers for wars against neighbouring tribes.
Portuguese soldiers continued to raid the islands during 1435, and Eugene issued a further edict Sicut Dudum that prohibited wars being waged against the islands and affirming the ban on enslavement.
Portuguese soldiers loading a mortar in the Western Front during World War I.
The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps ( Corpo Expedicionário Português, CEP ) was formed at Tancos, made up of 30, 000 soldiers, under the command of General Norton de Matos.
The first Portuguese soldiers arrived in France by February 1917.
31 Portuguese soldiers were killed in action.
Ironically one of the most important issues, the replacement of the light firearms, failed during his mandate due to the soldiers clinging onto their cheap and highly reliable Heckler & Koch G3's, made by INDEP ( the Portuguese Military factory ) in Portugal.
The statues to Portuguese heroes were removed and most were stored at the fortress, and black soldiers carrying Russian rifles replaced Portuguese Army soldiers ( both black and white ) with western arms in city barracks and on the streets.
The 20, 900 French soldiers were evacuated from Portugal with all their equipment and ' personal property ' ( which was mostly looted Portuguese valuables ) by the British Navy.

Portuguese and sometimes
Aveiro is sometimes called " The Portuguese Venice ", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of Venice, as the city faced similar problems when it tried to conquer the water.
Mistelle (; ; Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and, from Latin / " mix ") is sometimes used as an ingredient in fortified wines, particularly Vermouth, Marsala and Sherry, though it is used mainly as a base for apéritifs such as the French Pineau des Charentes.
French sometimes use this expression in a blend of the Portuguese and Spanish meaning.
Titles of games were translated into Portuguese, sometimes creating a new story, like Pick-axe Pete, that became Didi na Mina Encantada ( Didi in the Enchanted Mine ) referring to the Renato Aragão's comedy character, and was one of the most famous Odyssey games in Brazil.
In European languages other than English the corresponding words for " sect ", such as secte ( French ), secta ( Spanish ), seita ( Portuguese ), sekta ( Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian ), sekt ( Danish, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish ), sekte ( Dutch ), Sekte ( German ) or szekta ( Hungarian ), are used sometimes to refer to a harmful religious or political sect, similar to how English-speakers popularly use the word " cult ".
Among the Romance languages the vocative was preserved in Romanian: it is also visible sometimes, in languages such as Catalan or Portuguese which employ the personal article but drop it in front of vocative forms.
* Brazilian Portuguese: negro and preto are neutral, nevertheless preto can be offensively used, is sometimes regarded as ' politically incorrect ' and almost never proudly used by afro-Brazilians, crioulo and macaco are always extremely pejorative
Other cnidarians, such as the jellyfish Cyanea capillata ( the " Lion's Mane " made famous by Sherlock Holmes ) or the hydrozoan Physalia physalis ( Portuguese Man o ' War, " Bluebottle ") can cause extremely painful and sometimes fatal stings.
The Portuguese text says: " Our generation sometimes has difficulty distinguishing between ' j ' and ' z '"
The masculine and feminine forms of other adjectives derived from Portuguese are sometimes used with Portuguese loanwords, particularly by Portuguese-educated speakers of Tetum.
Luís Vaz de Camões (; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens ; c. 1524 – 10 June 1580 ) is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.
Ferdinand I ( Fernando, ; Lisbon, 31 October 1345 – 22 October 1383 in Lisbon ), sometimes referred to as the Handsome ( Portuguese: o Formoso, or o Belo ), occasionally as the Inconstant ( Portuguese: o Inconstante ), was King of Portugal and the Algarve, the second ( but eldest surviving ) son of Peter I and his wife, Constance of Castile.
In recent years some churches have scheduled their " Midnight " Mass as early as 7 pm In Spanish-speaking areas, the Midnight Mass is sometimes referred to as Misa del Gallo, or " Missa do Galo ", in Portuguese (" Rooster's Mass ").
In Macao, Chinese names are similarly sometimes still transliterated based on Portuguese orthography.
Tristão da Cunha ( sometimes misspelled Tristão d ' Acunha ; ; c. 1460 – c. 1540 ) was a Portuguese explorer and naval commander.
* In Portuguese, stress is sometimes indicated explicitly with an acute accent ( for i, u, and open a, e, o ), or circumflex ( for close a, e, o ).
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Portuguese visitors and their South Asian lascar ( and sometimes African ) crewmembers often engaged in slavery in Japan, where they bought or captured young Japanese women and girls, who were either used as sexual slaves on their ships or taken to Macau and other Portuguese colonies in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and India.
She married Felipe D ' Aquino ( last name sometimes given only as Aquino ), a Portuguese citizen of Japanese-Portuguese descent, on April 19, 1945.
In countries where Spanish, Portuguese, or French are spoken, and especially on the Iberian peninsula and in Latin America, a gesture called the bras d ' honneur involving raising a fist and slapping the biceps on the same arm as the fist used, sometimes called the Iberian slap or Iberian finger, is equivalent to the finger.
Descriptions of Melungeons have varied widely over time ; in the 19th and early 20th century, they were sometimes called or identified as " Portuguese ," " Native American ," or " light-skinned African American ".
During the nineteenth century, free people of color sometimes identified as Portuguese or Native American in order to avoid being classified as black in the segregated slave societies.

Portuguese and stated
Statistics from Portuguese administration in the 1960s stated that the racial composition of the inhabitants was 78 % of mestiços, 21 % of “ Africans ” ( i. e. blacks ) and 1 % of “ Europeans ” ( i. e. whites ).
In a documentary chronicling the making of the first three Indiana Jones films, John Rhys-Davies stated that his character of Sallah was meant to be a cross between his character in Shogun, Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues, and Falstaff.
The Portuguese commander Albuquerque once stated " a Chinese junk man knew more about courtesy and humanity than a European knight ".
Zebra in English dates back to c. 1600, from Italian Zebra, perhaps from Portuguese, which in turn is said to be Congolese ( as stated in the Oxford English Dictionary ).
* March 20 – The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese.
Of the 134, 497 people accounted for by the 2002 Guyanese Census, about 70, 962 ( 53 %) listed themselves as Black / African ; 31, 902 ( 24 %) as mixed ; 26, 542 ( 20 %) as East Indian ; 1, 441 ( 1. 1 %) as Amerindian ; 675 ( 0. 5 %) as Portuguese ; 475 ( 0. 35 %) as Chinese ; 2, 265 ( 1. 7 %) as " don't know / not stated "; 196 ( 0. 15 %) as white not of Portuguese descent ; 35 as " other ".
Currently the Portuguese military forces number 44, 900 with the majority of the manpower allocated to the Army although its Chief of Staff, General José Ramalho, has already stated that more men are needed.
In the eyes of the Canton officials, this added further negative speculations about the Portuguese visitors, because private Chinese overseas trade was banned under the current hai jin laws that stated only the Chinese government could conduct foreign trade.
In the British Channel 4 documentary, as well in the Portuguese SIC channel documentary, her doctors stated that it is unlikely that she will ever be properly rehabilitated into " normal " society.
In 2011 when the Portuguese Republic avoided default by requesting international financial assistance to the International Monetary Fund, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, one of the best known captains who coordinated and organized the April 1974 military coup-the Carnation Revolution, stated that he wouldn't have taken part in the revolution if he had known what the country would become after it.
Based on the diary of the Portuguese merchant in early 16th century, it stated that the name of Medan was actually derived from Medina which is actually a holy city in the western of Saudi Arabia.
* 1911 – In September the Portuguese government received an official communication from the Spanish government in which it was stated that Spain would build a lighthouse in the islands and had decided to include them in the Canary archipelago.
On April 4, 2009 Max Mosley stated that based on the quality of the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve circuit, the Portuguese Grand Prix could be integrated into the Formula One championship, as long as a commercial agreement with the Formula One Management is achieved.
" Canadian historian Holger H. Herwig claims the plan started as a result of discussions by Hitler in November 1940 and May 1941 when he stated his need to “ deploy long-range bombers against American cities from the Azores .” Due to their location, he thought the Portuguese Azores islands were Germany's “ only possibility of carrying out aerial attacks from a land base against the United States .” At the time, Portuguese dictator Salazar had allowed German U-boats and navy ships to refuel there, but from 1943 onwards, he leased bases in the Azores to the British, allowing the Allies to provide aerial coverage in the middle of the Atlantic.
" Former Portuguese international Luis Figo stated: " It is not right to compare them and Messi.
Ganga Zumba and Zumbi are the two most well known warrior-leaders of Palmares which, after a history of conflict with, first, Dutch and then Portuguese colonial authorities, finally fell to a Portuguese artillery assault in 1694. Portuguese soldiers sometimes stated it took more than one dragoon to capture a quilombo warrior, since they would defend themselves with a strangely moving fighting technique.
The first historical record of an attempt to introduce Christianity to Thailand is owed to John Peter Maffei who stated that about 1550 a French Franciscan, Bonferre, hearing of the great kingdom of the Peguans and the Siamese in the East, went on a Portuguese ship from Goa to Cosme ( Peguan ), where for three years he preached the Gospel, but without any result.
An 1888 U. S. Fish Commission Report stated that whales had been caught from Portuguese Bend as late as 1884, suggesting another party utilized the area for whaling up until that date.
The marriage had not been approved by D. Ana's father, King John VI, prior to his death ( strictly, Portuguese law at the time only stated that the marriage of the heiress presumptive required the sovereign's consent, a position D. Ana never held ).
The Portuguese ambassador, De Gouvea, once stated that:

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