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The War of Canudos (1893–1897)[1] was a conflict between the state of Brazil and a group of some 30,000 settlers who had founded their own community in the northeastern state of Bahia, named Canudos. After a number of unsuccessful attempts at military suppression, it came to a brutal end in October 1897, when a large Brazilian army force overran the village and killed nearly all the inhabitants. This was the deadliest civil war in Brazilian history.[1]
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The Contestado War (Portuguese: Guerra do Contestado), broadly speaking, was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916. It was fought in a inland southern region of the country, rich in wood and yerba mate, that was called Contestado because it was contested by the states of Paraná and Santa Catarina as well as Argentina. The war had its casus belli in the socia
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The Tenente revolts (Portuguese: movimento tenentista, revoltas tenentistas) of 1922 and 1924–27 were uprisings led by junior army officers (Portuguese: tenentes, IPA: [teˈnẽtʃis], lieutenants) that contributed significantly to the Brazilian Revolution of 1930.
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The period from 1937 to 1945, under the leadership of Getúlio Vargas
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