Patuleia

The Patuleia, Guerra da Patuleia, or Little Civil War was a

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, so called to distinguish it from the 'great' civil war between

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and Dom Miguel that ended in 1834. The Patuleia occurred after the

Revolution of Maria da Fonte The Revolution of Maria da Fonte, or Revolution of the Minho, is the name given to a popular revolt in the spring of 1846 against the Cartista government of Portugal (presided over by António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquess of Tomar). Th ...

, and was closely associated with her. It was caused by the nomination, as a result of the

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of 6 October 1846, known as the " Emboscada", to set up a clearly

Cartista Cartista was a Portuguese form of Chartism which arose after the Portuguese Liberal Revolution of 1820. Members supported the Constitutional Charter of 1826 granted by Peter IV of Portugal, which was an attempt to reduce the conflicts created by ...

government presided over by marshal João Oliveira e Daun, Duque de Saldanha. The war lasted 8 months, pitting the Cartistas (with the support of queen

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) against an unnatural coalition of Septembrists and

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s. The focus of resistance to the new government was the Septembrist 'Junta of

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', whose military leader, the First Count of Bonfim, was defeated by Marshal Saldanha at the siege of

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on 22–23 December 1846, and sent into exile in

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. The war ended in a clear Cartista victory, as shown in the signing of the resulting

Convention of Gramido The Convention of Gramido was an agreement signed on 29 June 1847, in Casa Branca on the town square of Gramido, in Valbom, Gondomar, Portugal, to end the civil war of the Septembrists against the Cartistas known as the Patuleia. The Convention ...

on 30 June 1847, but only just, after the intervention of foreign military forces of the

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