“Projeto Montevidéu”

The performance of field master Manoel de Freitas da Fonseca at the limits between Portuguese and Spanish America (1723-1732)

Authors

  • Victor Hugo Abril Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/ran.v0i7.97815

Keywords:

Colonia do Sacramento, military procedures, portuguese duds

Abstract

Scan the bureaucratic and military failures relating to the Portuguese occupation of Montevideo procedures in the eighteenth century is the subject of this article. With the name “Montevideo Project”, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Aires Saldanha de Albuquerque was planning guidelines to occupy the region, gateway to the effective occupation of the La Plata region. These databases were searched in the Arquivo Nacional do Rio de Janeiro and the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, identifying the governing practice around Nova Colonia del Sacramento.

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Author Biography

  • Victor Hugo Abril, Universidade Federal Fluminense

    PhD student in Social History at Universidade Federal Fluminense

Published

2015-05-05

Issue

Section

Dossiê temático: Perspectivas sobre o Império Português (séculos XVI-XVIII)

How to Cite

“Projeto Montevidéu”: The performance of field master Manoel de Freitas da Fonseca at the limits between Portuguese and Spanish America (1723-1732). (2015). Revista Angelus Novus, 7, 49-66. https://doi.org/10.11606/ran.v0i7.97815