Augusto Leverger, Baron Of Melgaço
Augusto João Manuel Leverger, Baron of Melgaço (30 January 1802 – 14 January 1880), nicknamed "Cuiabá's Breton", was a French-born Brazilian admiral, writer, historian, geographer and several times president of the province of Mato Grosso in the Empire of Brazil. He was a key figure of Mato Grosso's literary production during his time. Biography Leverger was born to Mathurin Michel Leverger and Regina Corbes in Saint-Malo in Brittany on 30 January 1802. According to his biography, written by Virgílio Correia Filho, he was a seaman since he was very young, having arrived in Brazil in 1824 because of that profession. In 1825 he joined the Imperial Brazilian Navy as a second-lieutenant, fighting in the Cisplatine War and commanding the corvette ''General Dorrego'' (renamed ''General do Rêgo''), which was captured from the Argentine Navy in 1828. He arrived in Cuiabá, in southwestern Brazil, in 1830. He had been named to staff the navy arsenal being built there. In 1843, h ...
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