Word: bragan
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Picked up in the palace grounds with wounds in the head and abdomen was 21-year-old Dom Juan of Orleans & Bragança, son of Dom Pedro, official pretender to the Brazilian throne. Reported shot in the leg as he tried to join the fighting was Dom Juan's 25-year-old brother, Pedro. These incidents led to speculations that back of the Integralistas was a move to restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted...