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Ninth Cavalry

Ninth Regiment

Nóbrega, Manuel da

Nogueira Galvão, Walnice

nopals

Norberto, Joaquim

Nordenfelt machine guns

Northeast Brigade

Northern Brazil

Notes on Paraíba
(Yoffily)

Nott

nyctalopia

O Estado de São Paulo

oiticica

Old Macambira

Old Ranch House

and assaults on Canudos

diversionary attacks

and growth of Canudos

and the Guimarães expedition

and the Moreira César expedition

and siege lines

and trenches

Oliveira, Afonso Pinto de

Oliveira, Antônio Caetano de

Oliveira, José Pedro de

Oliveira, Martiniano de

Oliveira, Trogyllio de

O Paíz

oratorical style of Cunha

Orthodox Judaism

Os sertões, Rebellion in the Backlands
(Cunha)

Ouro Prêto

Ox Lake

Pacheco, Vieira

pack mules

paçoca

Padre Cícero

paganism

Pajehú

ambushes

and anti-republicanism

and Conselheiro’s followers

death

described

and public opinion

and scouting missions

traps

wounded

paleontology

Palmares colony

palmatórias

pampas

and geography of the backlands

and
jagunços

and lance squadron

Sarmiento on

and
sertanejos

pampero

panasco

panthers

Pantoja, Donaciano de Araújo

Pão Branco

Pará

climate

and settlement of the backlands

troops from

Paraguaçú River

Paraíba River

Paraíba (state)

Paraíba Valley

Paraíso perdido
(Cunha) (unpublished)

Paraná

paranamirins

paranoia

pardo

parnaíba

Parnaíba River

Patamoté highway

Patamoté River

patriarchalism

Paulistas

and Bittencourt

defined

and Jesuit missions

and reinforcement troops

and settlement of the backlands

Paulo Afonso

and the backlands environment

and geology of the backlands

and insurrection at Monte Santo

and
jagunços

and Jesuits

peasant revolts

peccaries

pedometers

Pedra Bonita (Rock of Miracles)

Pedrão (“Big Peter”)

Pedro II Institute

Pedro II of Brazil

Peixoto, Afrânio

Peixoto, Floriano

and backland rebellions

and Bittencourt

Cunha’s connection to

and Moreira César

and patriotism

Penedo

Pequeno River

Pereira, Chacha

Pereira de Mello (Major)

Pereira Pinto, Alberto Gavião

Pereiras farm

Pernambuco

and backlands climate

Dutch rule

and environmental damage

and the Guimarães expedition

and Pedra Bonita

and roads to Canudos

and settlement of the backlands

and support for Conselheiro

personal life of Cunha

Peru

Peru vs. Bolivia
(Cunha)

Phrygian Montanists

physiology.
See also
race and ethnicity

Piauí

and backlands climate

and cattle ranching

and the Guimarães expedition

and roads to Canudos

and settlement of the backlands

Pico-arassa

Pico do Diabo

Pilão Arcado

pilgrimages

pillaging

Pimenta da Cunha, Antônio

Pimenta da Cunha, Manuel Rodrigues

Pinto, Francisco Gregorio

pioneers.
See also bandeiras / bandeirante;
settlers

Pious Anthony

Piquaraçá

Pires Ferreira, Manuel da Silva

Pita, Sebastião da Rocha

pitomba

Pitombas

Poço de Cima

police units.
See also
Fifth Corps Bahian Police

Poly, (Lieutenant)

Pombal (Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo)

Pompeu, Tomás

Ponciano (Sublieutenant)

pora-pora-eyma

Porteira Velha

Porto, Lydio

Porto Nacional

Portugal

and Brazilian culture

and Brazilian history

and Catholicism

and colonialism

and Cunha’s ancestry

and racial development of the backlands

religious influence in the backlands

positivism

Potengy, Joaquim

Potiguara Indians

poverty

Praia Vermelha

press

prickly pear cacti

primitive warfare

primitivism

prisoners of war

and accounts of Canudos assault

and executions

and food shortages

and intelligence on Canudos

surrenders from Canudos

women and children

pro pace
prayers

propaganda

property rights

prophecies

Providencia River

Providencia valley

provisions.
See
logistics; supplies for expeditions

Prussian military tactics

psychiatry

psychology

public opinion

and anti-republicanism

and battle reports

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

and casualties of war

and civil war

and Conselheiro

and monarchism

and the Moreira César expedition

and patriotism

and the republic

pumas

punctuation issues

Putnam, Samuel

quartermasters

Queimadas

ammunition stored at

and the Auxiliary Division

and the backlands environment

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

and climate of the backlands

and communications lines

and evacuation of the wounded

and the Girard Brigade

and the Guimarães expedition

history of

and Monte Santo

and the Moreira César expedition

and organization of the second expedition

and refugees

and retreats

Queiroz (Major)

quilombos

quipás

Quirinquinquá

quixaba

quixabeiras

at Canudos

and climate of the backlands

described

at Mount Favela

Quixadá

Quixeramobim

Rabassa, Gregory

race and ethnicity

atavistic regression

and backland
mestizos

Brazil’s ethnological problem

and cowboys

and Cunha’s education

and environment

and ethnography of the backlands

and geography of the backlands

and
jagunços

and mestizos

racial categorizations

and racial characteristics

and racial development of the backlands

racial diversity of the backlands

racial mixing

and
sertanejos

and social unrest

and structure of Canudos

and surrenders from Canudos

railways

Raimundo “Crooked Mouth”

Ramos, Virginio Napoleão

Rancharia

Rancho das Pedras

Rancho do Vicário

Raposo, Antônio

rattlesnakes

Ratzel, Friedrich

rebellions in the backlands

Rebouças, André

reconnaissance.
See
scouting and reconnaissance

recruitment of soldiers

of Conselheiro’s army

draft

and Fifth Bahian Police

and mobilization

national effort

and Queimadas

and reinforcements

sertanejo
recruits

tabaréus

and training

Red Houses section of Canudos

refugees

and the
caatingas

from Canudos

and cattle

and drought

and evacuation of casualties

and road to Monte Santo

and Rosário road

women and children

Rego, Firmino Lopes

reinforcements.
See also
Auxiliary Division

Reis, Joaquim Elesbão dos

religion.
See also
Catholic Church; Jesuits; missions and missionaries

of backlands mestizos

and class structure

cults of the dead

and evening prayers

and gnosticism

historical influences

and Monte Santo

and Pedra Bonita

and racial makeup of the backlands

of
sertanejos

and structure of Canudos

Renan, Ernest

rengue

republicanism

and Bittencourt

Conselheiro’s anti-republicanism

and Cunha’s education

and significance of Canudos rebellion

Resende, Garcia de

revolutionary monarchism

rheas

Rhipsalides

Ribeirão dos Pereiras

Ribeiro, Darcy

Ribeiro, Domingos

Ribeiro, João

rifles.
See
firearms

Rio das Éguas

Rio das Velhas

Rio de Janeiro

Rio Doce

Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Sul

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

climate

and geology of the backlands

and the Guimarães expedition

and the Savaget column

and the Tietê River

Rio Grande region

Rio Grande River

Rio Prêto

Rocha, José Agostinho Salomão da

death

and Krupps unit

and march to Angico

march to Pitombas

and the Moreira César expedition

and retreat from Canudos

Rocha Pita, Sebastião da

rodeador

Rodelas backlands

Rodrigues, Nina

Rohan, Beaurepaire

Roman Catholic Church.
See
Catholic Church

Roman Empire

Rosário

Rosário highway

Rosendo, Manoel

Rua do Ouvidor

runaway slaves

Ruy de Montoya

Sabará-buçú

Sabugosa, Conde de

sací

saddles

Sahara Desert

Saint-Hilaire, Augustin François César Prouvençal de

Salles, Antônio Nunes de

Salvador

sambaquís

Sampaio, João César de

Sampaio, Olegario

Sampaio, Teodoro

Santa Catarina

Sant’Anna do Brejo

Santo Antônio da Glória

Santo Ignácio

Santos, João Brígido dos

São Francisco River

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

and the central plateau

and Conselheiro’s followers

and crime in the backlands

and desertification

and gateway to the backlands

and geology of the backlands

and mining

and racial makeup of Brazil

and the road to Monte Santo

and settlement of the backlands

and supply lines

and Tapuia culture

and the Tietê River

São Francisco (town)

São Francisco valley (search)

São Joaquim de Jequitaia

São Leão, Caetano de

São Paulo.
See also
Paulistas

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

and the central plateau

and climate

and geography of the backlands

and settlement of the backlands

São Paulo Battalion

arrival at Canudos

and assaults on Canudos

and end of siege

and organization of reinforcements

and siege lines

Vaza-Barris camp

sapateado

sappers.
See also
military engineering

Saraiva, Gumercindo

Sargento River

Sariema

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino

Saúde Range

Schulte, Rainer

Scliar, Moacyr

scouting and reconnaissance

and assaults on Canudos

and battle of Cocorobó

and the
caatingas

and cavalry

and cowboys

and engineering corps

and the Guimarães expedition

and
jagunços

and lance squadron

and Macambira skirmish

and the Moreira César expedition

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