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1 day ago · The outbreak of violence in February 1961 in Angola was the beginning of the end of Portugal's empire in Africa. Portuguese army officers in Angola held the view that it would be incapable of dealing militarily with an outbreak of guerilla warfare and therefore that negotiations should begin with the independence movements.
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1 day ago · Portuguese Army special caçadores advancing in the African jungle in the early 1960s, during the Angolan War of Independence. As a result of its pioneering discoveries , Portugal had a large and particularly long-lasting colonial empire which had begun in 1415 with the conquest of Ceuta and ended only in 1999 with the handover of Portuguese ...
1 day ago · Annexation of Goa. The Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed the State of India, the then Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, Daman and Diu, starting with the armed action carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in December 1961. In India, this action is referred to as the " Liberation of Goa ".
1 day ago · Unknown. Majority of 30,000 Spanish expeditionary forces dead [4] 600,000 total dead [5] The Spanish American wars of independence ( Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place throughout Spanish America during the early 19th century, with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule. [6]
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1 day ago · Portuguese Navy. The Portuguese Navy ( Portuguese: Marinha Portuguesa, also known as Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa or as Armada Portuguesa) is the naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the military defense of Portugal .
1 day ago · Afro-Mexicans ( Spanish: afromexicanos ), also known as Black Mexicans ( Spanish: mexicanos negros ), [2] are Mexicans who have heritage from sub-Saharan Africa [3] [2] and identify as such. As a single population, Afro-Mexicans include individuals descended from both free and enslaved Africans who arrived to Mexico during the colonial era, [3 ...
