Division of Royal Volunteers

The Division of Royal Volunteers (Portuguese: Divisão de Voluntários Reais or Voluntários Reais do Príncipe, later Divisão de Voluntários Reais do Rei following the prince's ascent to kingship) was a detachment of the Portuguese military, formed in 1815 and deployed to Rio de Janeiro on 30 March 1816.[1] The unit was commanded by Carlos Frederico Lecor, Viscount of Laguna.

The Division embarks at Ilha de Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro, on 7 June 1816 (image by Jean-Baptiste Debret).

The unit was formed on order of then-Prince Dom João VI, to consist of 5,000 men, and invaded the Banda Oriental (in modern Uruguay), as part of the Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental.[2] The unit occupied the city of Montevideo on 20 January 1817.[3]

References
  1. Revista genealógica latina. 1525. pp. 2–.
  2. Barbosa Lessa (2013). Rio Grande do Sul, Prazer em Conhecê-lo. Editora AGE Ltda. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-85-7497-022-6.
  3. David Marley (1998). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. pp. 401–. ISBN 978-0-87436-837-6.


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