Some ideas for possible historical portraits of Brazil

[Marques from Brazil]

Hello friends. Is everything ok? I hope so! I'm passing to suggest ideas about the historical portraits of Brazil. I made these photo montage, don't notice too much in the beauty of it hahaha... but I made them to give an idea of what the historical generals of Brazil would look like. I hope you like and approve them, I hope the devs pay attention to them and add these characters to the game in some future update. Thanks for your attention, have a nice day.

Spoiler: Original uniform of a Brazilian Army Officer - Marshal.

Firmo Freire do Nascimento

Spoiler: Short Biografy

He began his career in May 1898 at the Realengo Preparatory and Tactical School. In January 1905 he was transferred to the 1st Company of the 23rd BI, in September he remained attached to the 2nd Company of the 7th BI and then was transferred to the 2nd Battery of the 2nd Coastal Artillery Regiment (2nd RAC), where he remained until March 1906, joining the following month the School of Artillery and Engineering. Promoted to second lieutenant in January 1907, he finished the course in 1908.

Attached to the 17th Cavalry Regiment (17th RC), he worked on the construction of the Timbó Railroad (BA)-Propriá (SE) from 1909 to February 1911, when he was transferred to the 6th Hunters Company. Promoted the first lieutenant in May of this year, he was in charge of the Warehouse works, the examination of the Sergipe Fiscal Police Station building, and the organization of a new project for the Customs building of this state. In 1912, after serving from April to August as an assistant to the Engineering Service of the 9th Permanent Inspection Region, he was placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, acting until 1916 as an engineer in the role of assistant to the Military Boundary Commission with Venezuela.

He served in the 2nd Regiment of Independent Cavalry, where, until December 1920, he performed for alternate periods the functions of inspector and commander of the 1st Squadron. In 1921 he attended the General Staff School review course, organized by the French Military Mission, which, sent to Brazil under General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, was responsible for remodeling the Brazilian Army. From 1922 to 1924 he served in the 1st Military Region (1st MR) in Rio de Janeiro, heading the 1st and 2nd sections of the general staff of that region.

Promoted to major in January 1924, he began serving as a military school inspector, serving until May 1927, when he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was then assigned to the 3rd MRI, based in Porto Alegre, and served as acting chief and then as permanent chief of the staff, having sometimes answered for the region's headquarters. Promoted to colonel in May 1929, he headed the staff of the 3rd MRI until October 1930. During the revolution that broke out on May 3, 1929, he resisted the revolutionary attack on the unit, together with the other officers of the staff of the 3rd MRI, commanded by General Gil de Almeida, while remaining at the side of the government of Washington Luis. With the defeat of this legalist resistance, he was imprisoned, in the company of those officers, by the revolutionary army.

Released after the victory of the movement that brought Getúlio Vargas to power, he began serving in the Army Personnel Department (DPE), then in charge of a police-military inquiry (IPM). Cumulatively head and commander of the garrison of the 12th Recruitment Circumscription from August 1931 to 1932, he returned to serve in the DPE in August of this last year, when he was once again in charge of an IPM. Conducting the IPM during the 1932 constitutionalist movement in São Paulo, he was arrested and retired in October of that year. He was given amnesty in May of 1934 and then returned to work, being assigned again to DPE. In August 1935, he was transferred to the 5th Divisional Cavalry Regiment, in Castro (PR), where, until September of the following year, he assumed the functions of commander for several periods. He also exercised the command of the 5th RM based in Curitiba. He was appointed to the Army General Staff (EME) in October 1936, and in the following December he was appointed to the Province of the 1st Group of Military Regions (GRM) and in July 1937 to the 2nd GRM. In both, he exercised the leadership of the general staff.

He was appointed to head the 2nd GRM, with headquarters in São Paulo, in November 1937, on the eve of the coup d'état nouvelle, and was promoted to Brigadier General the following month. In 1938 he became acting 2nd MR and commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade. In October of that year he was transferred to the garrison headquarters in Caçapava (SP), where he exercised the command of the Division/2 Infantry (ID/2) on an interim basis. Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of Army Staff (EME) from February to June 1939, he assumed command of the 7th RM in Recife the following month, remaining in the post until June 1940. He was then appointed to the General Secretariat of the Ministry of War, where he chaired the commission in charge of reviewing the Army's Disciplinary Regulations, also holding the post of director of Cavalry, Train, Remount and Veterinary from September to December 1940 and director of the cavalry weapon from January 1941 to September of the following year.

Appointed head of the Military Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic and secretary general of the National Security Council (CSN) in September 1942, from January of the following year he presided over the Special Commission for the Review of Borderland Concessions and was promoted to general-division in June of the same year. In October 1944 he began to accumulate these positions with that of president of the Economic Planning Commission which, created the previous month at the end of World War II under the presidency of the Secretary General of the CSN, had the objective of reviewing and coordinating the adaptation of the economy to the conditions required by times of peace.

Odílio Dênys

Spoiler: Short Biografy

He was declared an Aspirant to Official in April 1915 and assigned to serve in Bagé (RS). He was one of the members of the "Indigenous Mission", a group of instructors who, based on principles of the Prussian Army, revolutionized teaching at the Realengo Military School from 1919. In June 1921 he was promoted to first lieutenant. In 1922 he participated in the uprising by young army officers against the federal government, which began the cycle of tenant revolts that would mark Brazilian politics in the 1920s.

From November 1, 1930, he began to command the School of Infantry Sergeants of the Military Village, for which he responded until August 1931, when he was transferred to the 2nd Infantry Regiment, also based in the Military Village, without prejudice to the course he began to take in the School for the Improvement of Officers, under the guidance of the French military mission.

In September 1937, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to command the 7th Hunters' Battalion in Porto Alegre. On May 13, 1938, Denis was appointed by President Getúlio Vargas to command the 1st Hunters' Battalion in Petrópolis. That same month, he was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the Guard Battalion of the capital of the Republic. He stayed only three months in the Guard Battalion, returning to Petrópolis, from where he would only leave in March 1940. In June of that year he was invited to command the Military Police of the Federal District, then in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In 1942, he was promoted to brigade general.

Amaro Soares Bittencourt

Spoiler: Short Biografy

Amaro Soares Bittencourt (1885–1963) was a diplomat, a military and civil engineer and a general officer of the Brazilian Army, who attained the Brazilian Army rank of General of Division or in its original Portuguese "General de Divisão" (the equivalent U.S. Army rank is Lieutenant General). During the Second World War, then Brazilian “General de Brigada” (Brigadier General) Bittencourt was the chief of the Brazilian military mission to the United States, that is the military attaché at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Bittencourt was also a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Inter-American Defense Board. In October 1942, he became the first recipient of the United States Legion of Merit (Commander). France awarded Bittencourt the Legion of Honor (Officer) for his wartime service, and Brazil awarded him the Order of Military Merit (Brazil) or in its original Portuguese the “Ordem do Mérito Militar”. The Major General was a graduate of Brazil’s Escola Militar and its Escola de Estado-Maior.

In Brazil itself, where the military played a significant role in civilian infrastructure development and administration, the Lieutenant General with Brazilian Admiral Ary Parreiras led in a civilian capacity the Special Commission on Steel of Brazil’s Federal Technical and Financial Council. Most significantly, in 1939 this commission created a controversy when it voted to make Brazil’s ore exports a state monopoly as a precondition to the nation’s founding of a state steelworks. The government of Brazil did not ultimately follow the commission's recommendation.

Canrobert Pereira da Costa

Spoiler: Short Biography

In 1932 he joined the forces that fought the Constitutionalist Revolution, initiated by the "Paulistas" and considered to have a separatist connotation. After the 1930 Revolution commanded by "Getúlio Vargas", Canrobert held positions in academic institutions of the Brazilian Army. In 1938 he suffered a kidnapping during the integralist uprising against the Estado Novo, a kidnapping from which he got rid without having suffered any physical aggression. He was commander of the 9th Mounted Artillery Regiment of Curitiba, chief of staff of the Army General Staff; commander of the 3rd Cavalry Division of Bagé and general secretary of the Ministry of War. He was Minister of War during the government of Eurico Gaspar Dutra. In 1954 he was elected president of the Military Club.

Góis Monteiro

Spoiler: Short Biography

He adopted a legalistic bias when fighting the Eighteen of the Fort, Tenentismo and the Prestes Column in the twenties. During the Revolution of 1930, he led it to exercise military command, contributing to its success. Shortly thereafter he commanded federal troops that defeated the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution. He was Getúlio Vargas' Minister of War (1934-1935). In September 1937 he "discovered" the Cohen Plan, forged by then Captain Olímpio Mourão Filho, of a communist revolution in Brazil.

Mascarenhas de Moraes

Spoiler: Short Biografy

João Batista Mascarenhas de Moraes (São Gabriel, November 13, 1883 - Rio de Janeiro, September 17, 1968) was a Brazilian military man. He was the commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, during World War II, during the Italian Campaign, between 1944 and 1945. In December 1943, the then General Mascarenhas de Moraes was assigned to command the 1st DIE (Expeditionary Infantry Division).

Euclides Zenóbio da Costa

Spoiler: Short Biografy

Euclides Zenobio da Costa (in old spelling Euclydes Zenobio da Costa) GCA (Corumbá, May 9, 1893 - Rio de Janeiro, October 29, 1963) was a Brazilian military man, considered the idealizer of the Army Police (PE) of the Earthforce. In 1924, he participated in the military repression against the tenth century revolution. He was Commander of the Infantry of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, participating in war operations in Italy.

He commanded the 3rd RI, in São Gonçalo.

On October 12, 1943 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Avis of Portugal.

Cordeiro de Farias

Spoiler: Short Biografy

Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias GCA was a military, revolutionary and political Brazilian. He was a federal intervenor (governor) of Rio Grande do Sul and elected governor of Pernambuco. In the government of President Castelo Branco he assumed the Extraordinary Ministry for the Coordination of Regional Organizations, later transformed into the Ministry of the Interior. He was present in all political events in Brazil from 1922 until 1966, when he retired from public life.

In 1942, he reached the generalate. In September of the following year, he left the gaucho intervention agency to join the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB). In September 1944, he traveled to Italy, where he participated in the Campaign as commander of the FEB Division Artillery units.

Cavalcanti de Albuquerque

Spoiler: Short Biografy

José Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, known as Marechal José Pessoa, (Cabaceiras, September 12, 1885 - Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 1959) was a Brazilian military man. Son of Candido Clementino Cavalcanti de Albuquerque and Maria Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, was nephew of Epitácio Pessoa, President of the Republic from 1919 to 1922, and brother of João Pessoa, whose assassination was one of the triggers for the 1930 Movement that ended the Old Republic. During the Estado Novo, was relegated to minor functions in relation to this center, promoted to general-division in May 1940, traveled in 1943 to Paraguay as ambassador extraordinary to the inauguration of the president of that nation. Elected president of the Military Club in May 1944, he took office in June and remained there until June 1946.

Newton Cavalcanti

Spoiler: Short Biografy

On April 12, 1911, he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. On February 8, 1918, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. He was promoted to the rank of Captain, effective on May 2, 1922. He was promoted, by merit, to major on November 29, 1928. He actively participated in the Revolution of 1930. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 13, 1931. He arrived at the rank of colonel on February 10, 1933. On November 28, 1935 he was promoted to Brigade General.

From August to September of that year, he was appointed by Getúlio Vargas as federal intervenor in Mato Grosso, with the function of installing the state Constituent Assembly that would elect the state governor. On November 28, 1935, he was promoted to the rank of Brigade General. With sympathies for Integralism, he held various positions of command in the Army, among them that of commander of the Military Village of the Federal District, in 1937, and commander of the 5th Military Region (Curitiba), in 1942. He played a decisive role in the deposition of Getúlio Vargas in 1945.

Euclides Figueiredo

Spoiler: Short Biografy

Euclides de Oliveira Figueiredo (Rio de Janeiro, November 12, 1883 - Campinas, December 20, 1963) was a Brazilian general and politician, having served as a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro. One of his sons, General João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, was the 30th President of Brazil.

He studied physical and mathematical sciences at the then Realengo School of Artillery and Engineering, and in 1911 he began an internship at the German Army Cavalry Regiment in Ohlau, then East Prussia, now Poland. The German military doctrine, which he acquired in his experiences in the Army of that country, marked his military convictions and defended his incorporation into the Brazilian Armed Forces in opposition to the predominant French doctrine at the time.

He participated in the Contest Revolt, in the containment of the rebels, in a conflict that occurred on the border between Paraná and Santa Catarina. Thanks to his performance in this military campaign, he was decorated. In 1922, with the Revolt of the 18 at Copacabana Fort, he led a group of officers that contained the rebel lieutenants.

During the 1930 Revolution, already with the rank of Colonel, he was arrested by the rebels for refusing to join the movement. Euclides Figueiredo was later released, but in the months that passed he tried to obtain military reform for not accepting to serve that government.

After this episode, Euclides Figueiredo began to conspire against the then provisional government, meeting with others also opposed to the regime. This process culminated in the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution in which he commanded troops from the Vale do Paraíba region of São Paulo State during the three months of conflict. In that combat front he employed military strategies based on German doctrine, such as defense in depth, to confront the offensive of federal troops advancing toward the São Paulo capital. However, with the military defeat of the Constitutionalist Army in early October, he and other leaders were arrested and exiled in Portugal.

Obtaining amnesty as early as 1934, he continued his opposition to Getúlio Vargas, including participating in unsuccessful joints in 1935 along with Palimércio de Rezende and other officials. With the 1937 coup, which resulted in the Estado Novo, he was again arrested and exiled abroad.

 

[Kazakk]

Can't wait to form the URSAL with these generals.

 

[him_15]

Nice idea.

 

[DystopianAlphaOmega]

Great resource you compiled there. In the type of styles they use for the portraits too. Although some like the last guy might only be made available under certain ideologies.

Regardless, someday Brazil will get a focus tree. Then the snake will smoke.

 

[Marques from Brazil]

Regardless, someday Brazil will get a focus tree. Then the snake will smoke.

Thank you for the comment, I hope that at some point this will really happen. Brazil had many generals during this period, a complicated time for Brazil, many revolutions, uprisings among other problems, the Brazilian republic has always been marked by anti-democratic dictatorships, incredible as it may seem.

 

[Simon Marques]

Regardless, someday Brazil will get a focus tree. Then the snake will smoke.

Brazil was the only South American country to send a military unit to the conflict in World War II. Although it was only a division and a Fighter Group , it was the only nation that had the courage to participate effectively in the conflict. Unlike Brazilians, my country of origin, Argentina was very cowardly. So I believe that for this reason Brazil deserved to have some content related to the portraits.

In fact, the snake smoked contrary to what the Germans said. If the war had lasted a little longer, Brazilians would have done much more in the war effort. The great problem of Brazilians was the organization from scratch of their armed forces that, like any other American nation, was not prepared for a conflict like this. So the Brazilians took some time to prepare their armed forces. To get an idea, they did not have an air force, their ships were old and their military used totally outdated doctrines from the French armed forces.

 

[Marques from Brazil]

Brazil was the only South American country to send a military unit to the conflict in World War II. Although it was only a division and a Fighter Group , it was the only nation that had the courage to participate effectively in the conflict. Unlike Brazilians, my country of origin, Argentina was very cowardly. So I believe that for this reason Brazil deserved to have some content related to the portraits.

In fact, the snake smoked contrary to what the Germans said. If the war had lasted a little longer, Brazilians would have done much more in the war effort. The great problem of Brazilians was the organization from scratch of their armed forces that, like any other American nation, was not prepared for a conflict like this. So the Brazilians took some time to prepare their armed forces. To get an idea, they did not have an air force, their ships were old and their military used totally outdated doctrines from the French armed forces.

Not only that, Brazil came from a series of successive revolutions and totalitarian regimes, some believing that the Republican coup was a maneuver by foreign powers to weaken and slow Brazil's progress. With or without sabotage, Brazil stopped in time, as it was in 1889 in 1930, a nation practically without industry (due to the paralysis of the process of national industrialization begun 50 years earlier by the Brazilian crown). The truth is that Brazil only progressed as a monarchy and suffered intense setbacks and delays during the infamous republican regime that brought nothing good except to plunge the people and the nation into corruption.