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"A COLONY OF A COLONY": The Portuguese Royal Court in Brazil

"A COLONY OF A COLONY": The Portuguese Royal Court in Brazil Patrick In November 1807, Lisbon played host to one of the most remarkable episodes of the Napoleonic Wars. As a French invasion force streamed across the SpanishPortuguese border, down at the city’s docks there was chaos. Panicked crowds wove their way through great packing cases, barrels of water, furniture, crates of paperwork, and bundles of books that had begun accumulating by the quayside. In driving rain, court officials struggled to oversee the loading of passengers and freight onto the Portuguese fleet. Eusebio Gomes, a royal storekeeper, was caught up in the thick of it: “Everyone wanted to board,” he later wrote, “the docks filled up with boxes, crates, trunks, luggage—a thousand and one things. Many people were left behind on the quay while their belongings were stowed on board; others embarked, only to find that their luggage could not be loaded.”1 Crammed onto the convoy was a microcosm of the Portuguese elite—from royalty to government ministers, religious leaders to military advisers, courtiers to lawyers—along with their families and armies of servants and attendants. By some estimates, there were over 10,000 people spread across more than thirty ships preparing themselves for the 4,500-mile journey to Rio de Janeiro.2 1. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

"A COLONY OF A COLONY": The Portuguese Royal Court in Brazil

Common Knowledge , Volume 11 (2) – Jan 1, 2005

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press
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0961-754X
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1538-4578
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10.1215/0961754X-11-2-249
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Patrick In November 1807, Lisbon played host to one of the most remarkable episodes of the Napoleonic Wars. As a French invasion force streamed across the SpanishPortuguese border, down at the city’s docks there was chaos. Panicked crowds wove their way through great packing cases, barrels of water, furniture, crates of paperwork, and bundles of books that had begun accumulating by the quayside. In driving rain, court officials struggled to oversee the loading of passengers and freight onto the Portuguese fleet. Eusebio Gomes, a royal storekeeper, was caught up in the thick of it: “Everyone wanted to board,” he later wrote, “the docks filled up with boxes, crates, trunks, luggage—a thousand and one things. Many people were left behind on the quay while their belongings were stowed on board; others embarked, only to find that their luggage could not be loaded.”1 Crammed onto the convoy was a microcosm of the Portuguese elite—from royalty to government ministers, religious leaders to military advisers, courtiers to lawyers—along with their families and armies of servants and attendants. By some estimates, there were over 10,000 people spread across more than thirty ships preparing themselves for the 4,500-mile journey to Rio de Janeiro.2 1.

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