Celorico da Beira
Celorico da Beira () is a municipality in Guarda District in Portugal. The municipality population in 2011 was 7,693,Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese Army general and a military historian.
During
World War I
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, Ferreira Gil served as the Commander of the Portuguese Forces in Northern
Portuguese Mozambique
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Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
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