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Accepted Paper:
The sea leads to the North: conquering S. Luís, founding Belém (1614-1616)
Luís Sousa (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Paper short abstract:
The proposed communication deals with the process that led to the expulsion of the French from Maranhão (the conquest of the establishment of S. Luís), and successful entry of the Portuguese in the Amazon River (the foundation of the city of Belém).
Paper long abstract:
It is intended to make a brief analysis of the military process that led to the first successful Portuguese colony in the Amazonas river: the foundation of Belém do Pará. This evolved from the early French settlements in the North, and the final establishment in the Maranhão region, and the founding of the city of S. Luís. Initially, the Portuguese were slow to react. Quite surprisingly, it was during the dual monarchy that they mounted an expedition designed to occupy the northernmost part of Brazil, that ultimately established of the formal frontier with the Spanish America. The confrontation between the two rival European powers took place in a physical space that favored the adaptation of means and attitudes to a wide geographical diversity, underlining three main elements: the versatility and limitations of modern fortification in Brazil, the role of local warriors in adapting of the European war to a completely different tactical environment that included a vast net of watercourses, and the ever-decisive role of the leaders in the military campaigns, namely the arquitecto-mor Francisco de Frias, the sargento-mor Diogo de Campos Moreno.
Rivers and shores: 'fluviality' and the occupation of colonial Amazonia
Session 1