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Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias

1803 - 1880

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Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (pronounced [kaˈʃi.ɐs]; 25 August 1803 – 7 May 1880), nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "the Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. Like his father and uncles, Caxias pursued a military career. In 1823 he fought as a young officer in the Brazilian War for Independence against Portugal, then spent three years in Brazil's southernmost province, Cisplatina, as the government unsuccessfully resisted that province's secession in the Cisplatine War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias has received more than 217,617 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias is the 9,960th most popular politician (down from 9,883rd in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 224th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Brazilian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 9,960 out of 19,576. Before him are Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Gerhard Schröder, Alberts Kviesis, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Leslie Manigat, and Andrei Bubnov. After him are Ashot III of Armenia, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Ostoja of Bosnia, Daniel D. Tompkins, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and Hugo Preuß.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 40. Before him are Edgar Quinet, Alexander von Nordmann, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Elisa Radziwiłł, Ludwig Richter, and Franz Lachner. After him are C. L. Gloger, Eugène Isabey, Peter Chanel, Albert Sidney Johnston, Yevfimiy Putyatin, and Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1880, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 28. Before him are James Craig Watson, Oliver Winchester, Friedrich Bayer, Jules Favre, Raden Saleh, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. After him are Robert Fortune, Constantin Hansen, Edwin Drake, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, and August Karl von Goeben.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 249 out of 2,236. Before him are Marinho Peres (1947), Diane, Duchess of Württemberg (1940), Regina Duarte (1947), Philippe Coutinho (1992), Rodrigo Santoro (1975), and Maicon Sisenando (1981). After him are Nilo Peçanha (1867), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), Anselmo Duarte (1920), Edu (1949), José Linhares (1886), and Edmundo (1971).

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Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 43. Before him are Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain (1811), Geraldo Alckmin (1952), Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1841), Hermes da Fonseca (1855), José Bonifácio de Andrada (1763), and Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (1848). After him are Nilo Peçanha (1867), José Linhares (1886), Epitácio Pessoa (1865), Arthur Bernardes (1875), Ruy Barbosa (1849), and Carlos Luz (1894).

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