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The Portuguese Rapid Reaction Brigade ' Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron – a unit from the 3rd Regiment of Cavalry – is known as the " Paratroopers Dragoons ".
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Portuguese and Rapid
The controls were the same as the standard model, except the markings were in Portuguese. The selector switch ( found on the left side, above the trigger guard ) was marked N for Normal (" Normal " for semi-automatic ) and R for Rápido (" Rapid " for fully automatic ).
Portuguese and Brigade
With the end of the Colonial War, the Portuguese parachute troops were reorganized as the Paratroopers Corps, with the Light Parachute Brigade as its operational unit.
In 1993, the Paratroopers Corps was transferred from the Portuguese Air Force to the Portuguese Army and become the Airborne Troops Command, with the Independent Airborne Brigade as its operational unit.
These included 1, 000 British heavy dragoons ( 1st Cavalry Brigade ) led by John Le Marchant, 1, 000 British light dragoons ( 2nd Cavalry Brigade ) under George Anson, 700 Anglo-German light horse under Victor Alten, 800 King's German Legion ( KGL ) heavy dragoons led by George Bock and 500 Portuguese dragoons under Benjamin D ' Urban.
* Portuguese Brigade: Brigadier General Charles Ashworth
* Power's Portuguese Brigade ( Maj-Gen Manley Power ); See Military history of Portugal # Peninsular War ( 1807 – 1814 )
* Portuguese Brigade: Major General Collins
* Portuguese Brigade
* Portuguese Brigade: Brigadier General de Rezende
* Portuguese Brigade: commanded by Colonel Collins
Wellesley now ordered the King's German Legion to turn the French left and the 16th Portuguese to turn their right and with the rest of Stewart's Brigade renewed the attack on the wooded heights in the centre above the village of Grijó.
Portuguese and Armoured
*-38 in service with the Portuguese Republican National Guard ( currently replaced by the MAV 5 Armoured Personnel Carrier )
Portuguese and Squadron
* 8 March – A Portuguese Air Force 201 Squadron F-16 crashes in Monte Real while landing, killing the pilot.
* 9 April – A Portuguese Air Force 552 Squadron Alouette III crashes, killing the three crewman.
The resident Portuguese Squadron 711 Albatrozes ( Albatrosses ) was deactivated on 30 November 2006.
* Esquadra 751 or 751 Squadron " Pumas " ( AW101 Merlin ) at the Portuguese Air Force official website
Portuguese and –
Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44
* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )
* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal
* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
* 1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer
* 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
* 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
* 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
* 1991 – Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
Amalaric ( Gothic: Amalareiks ), or in Spanish and Portuguese, Amalarico, ( 502 – 531 ) was king of the Visigoths from 526 until his assassination in 531.
* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
* 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* 1195 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint ( d. 1231 )
* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )
* 1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
* 1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer
* 1986 – Rúben Micael, Portuguese footballer
* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
Portuguese and unit
The Portuguese 2nd Division fought against Germany's superior numbers and though the unit was almost completely lost, the Portuguese fought on.
The first Portuguese paratoopers were part of a small commando unit, organized in Australia, during World War II, with the objective to be droped in the reaguard of the Japanese troops that were occupying Portuguese Timor.
However, the first regular parachute unit was only created in 1955, by the Portuguese Air Force, as the Parachute Caçadores Battailon.
This unit adopted the green beret, which has become, since then, the principal emblem of the Portuguese paratroopers.
The C. S. Forester novel Death to the French ( 1932 ) concerns a private in a British Rifle Regiment who is cut off from his unit and joins a group of Portuguese guerrillas.
In September 1792, Augereau joined a volunteer cavalry unit, the German Legion. But this is without proof as Augereau claims that the papers were taken away from him during the Portuguese Inquisition.
* Destacamentos de Mergulhadores Sapadores, Portuguese combat divers unit
* The word for metre, a unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
* Vara, an old Spanish and Portuguese unit of length, still used in legal land surveys in Texas
The pataca was introduced in Portuguese Macau and Portuguese Timor in the year 1894, but only as a unit of account.
The unit initially corresponded to the Mexican dollar, and it replaced the Portuguese real at a rate of 1 pataca = 450 réais.
In 1935, when Hong Kong and China abandoned the silver standard, the Hong Kong unit was pegged to sterling at a rate of 1 shilling and 3 pence, while the Macau pataca was pegged to the Portuguese escudo at a rate of 5. 5 escudos.
Freguesia () is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish.
It was the fifth European Marine unit formed, being preceded by the Spain's Infantería de Armada ( 1537 ), the Portuguese Marine Corps ( 1610 ), France's Troupes de marine ( 1622 ), and the English Royal Marines ( 1664 ).
KFOR Tactical Reserve Manoeuvre Battalion ( KTM ) is a Portuguese Battalion level unit, operating as part of KFOR CJSOR since 2005.
Research is organized and funded through CGUL, the leading Portuguese geophysical research unit, and Associated Laboratory ( with LATTEX ) of the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology.
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