Sebastião Barreto Pereira Pinto (1775–1841) was a Brazilian military officer and politician.

Biography

Sebastião Barreto Pereira Pinto was born in Porto Alegre in 1775. He enlisted in the Rio Pardo Dragoons Regiment on 18 October 1791, serving in the campaigns of 1801, 1811–1812, 1816, the

Cisplatine War The Cisplatine War was an armed conflict fought in the 1820s between the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata over control of Brazil's Cisplatina province. It was fought in the aftermath of the United Provinces' an ...

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Ragamuffin War The Ragamuffin War, also known as the Ragamuffin Revolution or Heroic Decade, was a republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835. The rebels were led by Generals Bento Gonçalv ...

. In 1823, in

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, he fought against Portuguese general Álvaro da Costa, who opposed Brazil’s independence. He was elected provincial deputy to the 1st Legislature of the Provincial Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul. At the start of the Ragamuffin War, he was the commander of arms of the province and was stationed in Livramento. When the new president, Marciano Pereira Ribeiro, supported by the rebels, took office, Barreto was removed from command and took refuge in Uruguay. Upon returning from Montevideo, he resumed command of the troops on 15 April 1837, but was successively defeated by the Ragamuffins at the fields of Atanagildo and in the Battle of Barro Vermelho on 30 April 1838, in which Rio Pardo (until then known as the "Undefeated Palisade") was taken by the rebels. Because of the defeat, he was subjected to a court-martial but was acquitted. He was appointed president of the province of Minas Gerais by imperial decree on 29 July 1840, taking office on 22 August and serving until April of the following year. He died in 1841, at the age of 66.

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* * {{Cite book , url=https://archive.org/details/homensillustresd00port/ , title=Homens Ilustres do Rio Grande do Sul , last=Alegre , first=Aquiles Porto , publisher=Livraria Selbach , year=1917 , place=Porto Alegre 1775 births 1841 deaths Governors of Minas Gerais People of the Cisplatine War