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    The League of Combatants ComTE MHTE MHIH ComB MHM (Portuguese: Liga dos Combatentes), originally established as the League of Combatants of the Great...
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    types of combatants who do not qualify as privileged combatants: Combatants who would otherwise be privileged but have breached the laws and customs of war...
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  • Francisco Xavier da Cunha Aragão (category Recipients of the Order of the Tower and Sword)
    was one of the founders of the League of Combatants of the Great War. The first meeting took place on 16 October 1921 at the Lisbon office of the lawyer...
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    War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência de Angola; 1961–1974), known as the Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional ("Armed Struggle of National...
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    various institutions. Member of the Lisbon Geographical Society, Portuguese League of Combatants, Historical Society of Portuguese Independence, Lisbon...
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    offer of salaries to conscripts. Under Spínola, the Portuguese also created two elite special forces contingents composed of African combatants and engaged...
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    Combatente (Combatant’s museum) and the Monument to Overseas Combatants. Construction of the fort, which follows a polygonal outline on the right bank of the...
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  • Wiriyamu Massacre (category Mozambican War of Independence)
    made in a report of Archbishop of Dar es Salaam Laurean Rugambwa that alleged that the killings were carried out by FRELIMO combatants, not Portuguese...
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  • italiani di combattimento ("Italian league of combatants"). Other fasci of the same name were created, with the common goal of opposing all those– including...
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    bodies: Armed Forces Social Action Institute Portuguese Red Cross; League of Combatants. "O que faz o Ministério da Defesa Nacional". Portal da Defesa na...
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  • included the overthrow of Ahmed Sékou Touré's government, capture of the leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)...
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    made in a report of Archbishop of Dar es Salaam Laurean Rugambwa that alleged that the killings were carried out by FRELIMO combatants, not Portuguese...
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    Flechas (category Special forces of Portugal)
    of the Portuguese secret police (PIDE, latter renamed DGS) that operated in Angola and Mozambique during the Portuguese Colonial War. Unlike most of the...
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    ... Thousands of non-combatants including women and children were killed or injured by mobs, supported by the All India Muslim League. Chitkara, M. G...
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  • levels, complicating the job of separating and identifying them. The exhumation was promoted by the League of Combatants of Portugal (Liga dos Combatentes...
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    major tourist area of Belém and its future seems assured. It contains a museum run by the League of Combatants. Battery 5, on the south of the Tagus, is in...
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    1968 the Reconnaissance Group of Angola (Portuguese: Grupo de Reconhecimento de Angola), and commonly known as the Dragoons of Angola (Portuguese: Dragões...
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  • part of the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence and the Portuguese Colonial War. The "Guileje Corridor" constituted the main line of infiltration of the...
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  • Guinean Battalion of Commandos, which was held on 8 May 1973 in the course of the Colonial War in Guinea-Bissau, which had the purpose of "annihilating or...
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  • alternately translated Association of Militant Clergy, Assembly of Combatant Clerics, and Combatant Clerics League "List of Legally Registerred Parties in...
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  • Operation Abanadela (category Mozambican War of Independence)
    Mozambique during the Mozambican War of Independence against FRELIMO guerrillas in July 1970. designates a set of patrols carried out along the Zambezi...
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    The French Legion of Veterans (French: Légion française des combattants, or LFC) was a paramilitary association established in Vichy France and Vichy's...
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  • in the Mozambican War of Independence. The operation consisted of an attack to the Provincial Base Gungunhana, in the region of Niassa, carried out in...
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  • for Eastern Front) was the name of the theater of Portuguese Armed Forces' anti-guerrilla operations in the East of Angola (by then a Portuguese overseas...
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  • Operation Penada (category History of Mozambique)
    name of a Portuguese military operation that occurred during the Portuguese Colonial War in Mozambique, in April 1972. The Portuguese 31st Battalion of Hunters...
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  • Portuguese irregular forces in the Overseas War (category Special forces of Portugal)
    usually held at the local level of Theater of Operations and included various types in terms of origin and dependence: militias of white settlers, native militias...
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  • List of wars involving Myanmar Officially the Union of Burma from 1962 to 1974 Officially the Union of Burma from 1988 to 1990 and the Republic of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Portuguese Paratroop Nurses
    (Enfermeiras Pára-quedistas in Portuguese) were a group of 46 women that, between 1961 and 1974 (the duration of the Portuguese Colonial War), became the first...
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  • Strike in Baixa do Cassange (category Angolan War of Independence)
    considered the first political movement that would trigger the Angolan War of Independence exactly one month later and the Portuguese Colonial War over...
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  • Afrikaans: Alcora Oefening) or simply Alcora was a secret military alliance of South Africa, Portugal, and Rhodesia, formally in force between 1970 and 1974...
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