Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, 2nd Viscount of

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, was a

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soldier, who served on the absolutist side in Portugal's

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. He was born in

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, on August 10, 1770, and became a member of the Royal Household ("''moço-fidalgo''") by a decree of December 20, 1778. He succeeded his father-in-law as 2nd Viscount of Montalegre by a royal decree of July 3, 1823. As the military commander in Trás-os-Montes in 1823, he raised a rebellion in the name of the absolutist prince,

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Dom Miguel of Portugal. During the civil war between Dom Miguel and his elder brother, the former

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Dom Pedro I of Brazil, he was a prominent Miguelite general: he was in joint command of the Miguelite army at the

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, and was the Miguelite commander at the Battle of Asseiceira in which Miguel's cause was finally defeated. After the war ended, he was

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from the army in 1834. He wrote memoirs justifying his actions, and died in 1841.

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