Word: schiappa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...23rd time since King Manoel was driven from his throne in 1910, revolution flared. The igniting spark was the removal from office of Minister of War Col. Schiappa de Azevedo. who had refused to sign deportation orders against the army officers accused of participating in the last Portuguese revolution, the ruckus in April on the island of Madeira (TIME, May 11). Immediately two raggle taggle bands of soldiers, officers, civilians rushed the third artillery in Lisbon garrison and Sao Jorge fortress on the heights above the city, seized cannon and machine guns, pasted up proclamations defying the Government, dug themselves...
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