• and Spain, as maestre de campo or mestre de campo. When the role of infantry colonel general was abolished in 1661, the mestre de camp took the title of...
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    Portuguese Mestre-de-Campo-General) he commanded the "Patriot Army" of 25,000 men, composed of four terços, led by Fernandes Vieira, Vidal de Negreiros...
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    Succession at the rank of Mestre de campo general. Pedro was married with D. Margarida Juliana de Távora, widow of Francisco Barreto de Meneses, and daughter...
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    Retrieved 29 June 2024. Del Campo, Almudena (5 February 2019). "Ana Mestre, nueva delegada del Gobierno de la Junta en Cádiz" [Ana Mestre, new delegate of the...
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  • of the non-Iberian European armies. Each terço was commanded by a mestre de campo (equivalent to colonel), assisted by a sergeant-major and a staff,...
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    The Fountain of Campo das Hortas (Portuguese: Chafariz do Campo das Hortas) is a fountain located in civil parish of Sé, municipality of Braga in northern...
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    (Philip III of Portugal). In 1641 he was assigned as general-commander (mestre-de-campo) of the Portuguese forces loyal to John IV of Portugal, and he organized...
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  • Governor-elect Francisco Mestre and has no employees. The deputies took office only in 1905 and met at the residence of President Jeronimo José de Santa Anna. It...
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    Bemposta in the Order of Christ. In 1647 he was posted to Brazil as Mestre de Campo of one of the elite regiments of Royal Marines, where he served favourably...
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  • known as Mestre Pastinha, was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style. Mestre Pastinha...
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