Word: moreira
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred soldiers were sent to the town of Canudos in November, 1896, to pacify Conselheiro's restless followers. They were routed. So was a second force of 543 men two months later. In February 1897, an expedition under Colonel Moreira Cesar set out with 1,300 men, 15,000,000 cartridges, 70 rounds of cannon shot. Moreira Cesar was tough, relentless, an epileptic. The objective was Canudos, a mountain village of 5,200 huts and two churches whose population had been swollen by crowds of Conselheiro's followers. It was 60 miles away over mountain roads that...
...Moreira Cesar's artillery opened up, the church bell began ringing, "summoning the faithful to battle." As his troops swept into the trap, he was wounded in the abdomen. "It is nothing," he said. Another bullet struck him. By nightfall the army was panic-stricken...