The Brazilian president's honor guard is provided ( amongst other units ) by a regiment of dragoons: the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment.

In 2009 season after finishing the 1st phase of the Brazilian League in 10th place, Flamengo won the Brazilian Série A with a terrific campaign in the 2nd phase, the championship was decided in the very last game with a 2 – 1 win against Grêmio at Maracanã Stadium, with this victory the Flamengo became six times Brazilian League Champion.

Up until the relegation, it was one of the only six clubs to have never been removed from the first division, along with Internacional, Cruzeiro, Flamengo, Santos and São Paulo, though the last two ( even they never played any of the lower divisions ), didn't participate in the 1979 Brazilian Championship's 1st division, in order to avoid conflicts with Paulista Championship schedule.

Semper Fidelis is the motto of the 1st company of the Brazilian Military Institute of Engineering.

The 1st Brazilian Infantry Division, operating in the 5th Army in Italy was equipped with Springfield M1903 rifles.

These units were only partially compensated for by the arrival of the Brazilian 1st Infantry Division, the land forces element of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force.

Gen. Clark's 5th Army comprised three corps: U. S. IV Corps on the left formed by U. S. 1st Armored Division, South African 6th Armoured Division and two regimental Combat Teams (" RCT "), equivalent to 5, 000 men each: one of the U. S. 92nd Infantry Division ( Buffalo Soldiers ) and other was the Brazilian 6th RCT, the first arrived contingent of land forces element of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force ; in the centre was U. S. II Corps ( U. S. 34th, 85th, 88th and 91st Infantry Divisions supported by three tank battalions ); and on the right British XIII Corps ( British 1st Infantry Division, British 6th Armoured Division, 8th Indian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Tank Brigade ).

Most American troops left shortly afterwards as policing and peacekeeping operations were turned over to Brazilian troops, but some U. S. military presence, including a headquarters and the 1st Brigade of the 82d Airborne Division remained until August 1966.

The Sport Recife had the experience of goalkeeper Paulo Victor, who had already won the Brazilian league 1st division by Fluminense, the excellent Ailton, who won several state by red and black, plus gain Bola de Prata in Revista Placar two years later than the former Palmeiras Marcio Alcantara.

In 1943 he was named Commander of The First Expeditionary Infantry Division of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the 1st DIE ( in Portuguese, " Primeira Divisão de Infantaria Expedicionária ").

With the cancellation of the 2nd and 3rd Divisions he thus became Commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, comprising only the 1st DIE.

During the organization of the 1st DIE he was also head of the Brazil Military Commission with the USA and visited the Mediterranean Theater of operations in 1943, before the arrival of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force.

After the end of the war he returned to Brazil and, in 1946, was made a Marshal by The Brazilian Congress and received the command of the 1st Military Region in the then Brazilian capital, Rio de Janeiro.

On April 22, 1986, the 1st Brazilian Fighter Group was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions in the Po Valley region of Italy in World War II.

* Brazilian Army has four Jungle Infantry Brigade: 1st, 16th, 17th and 23rd Jungle Infantry Brigades and others units, divided in two division, and Jungle Warfare Training Center ( CIGS ).

Botafogo would be relegated to the Second Division after ranking last in the Brazilian League of 2002.

In 2004 Vitória, after a poor campaign, was relegated to the Brazilian Second Division.

In 2005, the club competed in the Brazilian second division, finishing 17th, and so was relegated to the Third Division for the first time in its history.

In 2000, due to bribe scandals involving clubs such as São Paulo and Internacional, the team returned to the Brazilian First Division, invited by the Clube dos Treze, along with Fluminense, which was made a scapegoat for the controversy and was nationally victimized by the media ( see Copa João Havelange ).

Despite playing in the Third Division of Brazilian football in 2007, Bahia had the largest average attendance in Brazil: 40, 400 people per match.

* 22px Brazilian League-Second Division: 1-1995

* Leila Miccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection at the Special Collections Division at The University of Miami

Lilian and Universindo's later testimony also proved that four officers of the secret Uruguayan Counter-information Division – two majors and two captains – took part in the operation under consent of the Brazilian authorities.

Nevertheless, in 1996, Maurício was the top scorer of the 2nd Division Brazilian Championship with 13 goals.

Between the end of February and beginning of March 1945, in preparation for the Spring offensive, the Brazilian Division and the U. S. 10th Mountain Division were able to capture important positions on the Apennines, which deprived the Germans of key artillery positions on the mountains, whose effective fire had since the fall of 1944 blocked the Allied path to Bologna.

In the US 5th Army's sector, the final offensive on the Italian Front began on April 14, after a bombardment of 2, 000 artillery pieces ; an attack carried out by the troops of US IV Corps, commenced by the Brazilian Division took Montese.

German General Otto Fretter-Pico, Commander of the 148th Infantry Division, and General Mario Carloni surrendering to Brazilian FEB – Italy, 1945.

At the battle of Collecchio, the Brazilian forces were preparing to face fierce resistance at the Taro river region from the retreating German-Italian forces of the region of Genoa / La Spezia that had been set free by troops of the 92nd US Division.

German General Otto Fretter-Pico, Commander of the 148 Infantary Division, and General Mario Carloni surrendering to Brazilian troops after the Battle of Collecchio.

In February 1945, Operation Encore saw elements of U. S. IV Corps, ( the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and the newly-arrived U. S. 10th Mountain Division ) battling forward across minefields in the Apennines to align their front with that of U. S. II Corps on their right.

On the army's left flank, the 92nd Infantry Division ( the " Buffalo Soldiers Division ") went along the coast to Genoa ; and a rapid advance towards Turin, by the Brazilian division on their right, took the German – Italian Army of Liguria by surprise, causing its collapse.

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force or BEF (, or FEB ) was a force about 25, 700 men and women arranged by the Army and Air Force to fight alongside the Allied forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II.

The BEF headquarters functioned as an administrative headquarters and link to the Brazilian high command and War Minister General Eurico Gaspar Dutra in Rio de Janeiro.

* Due to the Brazilian dictatorship's unwillingness to get more deeply involved in the Allied war effort, by 1942 a popular saying was said at a session by Getulio Vargas: " it's more likely for snakes to start to smoke now than for the BEF to set out.

Popular mobilization to make the war declaration effective, with the despatching of Brazilian troops to Europe, continued, but a decision by the Brazilian Government to actually send troops to fight the enemy was only made in March 1943 when Vargas and the U. S President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met in the Conference of Natal, where the first official agreement was made to create an expeditionary force ( BEF ).

Soon after the war, however, fearing the BEF's popularity and possible political use of the allied victory by some BEF members, the then Brazilian government decided to make demobilization effective, with the BEF still in Italy.

* Paraguayan War ( 1864 – 1870 ): Over 200, 000 Brazilians fought on this conflict, which is considered as the most serious in Brazilian history.

Chagas named the pathogenic parasite as Trypanosoma cruzi and later that year as Schizotrypanum cruzi, both honoring Oswaldo Cruz, the noted Brazilian physician and epidemiologist who successfully fought epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, and bubonic plague in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in the beginning of the 20th century.

Although the Brazilian Government, the Catholic Church, and the United Nations, among others, fought for the gun ban, the referendum failed at the polls, with 64 % of the voters voting no.

* 1865 – The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo ( Argentina ), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other.

The country was slowly being repopulated by former Brazilian soldiers who had fought in the War of the Triple Alliance, and Paraguay's government encouraged European immigration.

The result was the Paraguayan War, a five-year conflict in which Uruguayan, Brazilian and Argentinian armies fought Paraguay, and which Flores finally won, but only at the price of the loss of 95 % of his own troops.

The flag's Latin inscription, " Libertas quæ sera tamen ", is the motto of the " Inconfidencia Mineira ," which fought for Brazilian independence from Portugal.

This air-land force fought in Italy from September 1944 to May 1945, while the Brazilian Navy as well as the Air Force also acted in the Atlantic Ocean from the middle of 1942 until the end of war.

On the left, 5th Army IV Corps had fought their way to the main Gothic Line: the Brazilian 6th RCT had taken Massarosa, by 18 September it also took Camaiore and other small towns on the way north.

The MST appeared late in the already long history of the Brazilian land question, which had already been hotly debated ( as well as actually fought ) into the framework of previous Brazilian politics, especially amid the Left, who generally agreed to think of it as part of a late process of Bourgeois Revolution.

Peçanha was a man of sharp political wit who carved a practical and non-doctrinaire course between the positivists and the idealistic adherents of a pure Republican system that fought each other during the first decades of Brazilian Republic.

The Brazilian Army has fought in several international conflicts, mostly in South America during 19th century.

Although the Brazilian Army was created during the process of the independence of Brazil from Portugal, in 1822, with the units of the Portuguese Army in Brazil that have remained loyal to Prince Dom Pedro, its origins can date back to Land Forces used by Portuguese in the colonial wars against French and Dutch, fought in 16th and 17th centuries.

On Nov. 17, 2006, Couture fought and drew with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion Ronaldo " Jacare " Souza in a submission wrestling contest.

In his next fight, Vovchanchyn fought Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master Francisco Bueno.

Born in Quixeramobim in the state of Ceará, he fought as a guerrilla in one of the movements against the Brazilian military leaders Emílio Garrastazu Médici and Ernesto Geisel who ruled Brazil in the seventies.

He fought Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum, losing via kimura in the second round.

In 1924 he took part in the uprising against the Brazilian Federal Government and also fought in the Brazilian Revolution of 1930.