José Augusto Alves Roçadas (
Vila Real
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, 6 April 1865 –
Lisbon, 28 April 1926) was an officer of the
Portuguese Army and a colonial administrator.
In 1907 troops under his command in
Portuguese Angola
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I ...
put down a revolt by the
Ovambo Ovambo may refer to:
*Ovambo language
*Ovambo people
* Ovamboland
*Ovambo sparrowhawk
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at the
Battle of Mufilo.
As a colonial administrator, Alves Roçadas served as Governor of the
District of Huíla in Portuguese Angola (1905 - 1908),
Governor of Macau
The governor of Macau ( pt, Governador de Macau; ) was a Portuguese colonial official who headed the colony of Macau, before 1623 called captain-major ( pt, Capitão-mor). The post was replaced on 20 December 1999 upon the transfer of sove ...
(1908-1909) and
Governor-General of Angola (1909-1910).
During World War I, Alves Roçadas served as the commanding officer of Portuguese forces in southern Angola, leading them in combat in the
German invasion of Portuguese Africa against the invading
German forces.
[Strachan, p.80]
After the war, he participated in the preparation of the
28 May 1926 coup d'état, together with Generals
Manuel Gomes da Costa
Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa , commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa () or just Gomes da Costa (14 January 1863 – 17 December 1929), was a Portuguese army officer and politician, the tenth president of Portugal and the second of ...
,
Sinel de Cordes and
Óscar Carmona
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona (; 24 November 1869 – 18 April 1951) was a Portuguese Army officer and politician who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928 and as the 11th president of Portugal from 1926 until his death i ...
, thus creating the
Ditadura Nacional
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. First destined to take up a post in the new government, he fell ill and died a month before the coup.
Notes
References
*Hew Strachan, ''The First World War in Africa'' (2004)
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