Industrial Age · South America · Politics
1821
Brazil's Cry of Ipiranga
September 7, 1821
On a riverbank near São Paulo, Crown Prince Pedro tore the Portuguese cockade from his hat, drew his sword, and shouted "Independence or death!" Six weeks later he was crowned emperor of an independent Brazil. It was the gentlest of Latin American revolutions - a palace coup against the father, not the country.
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