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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 195,829 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias is the 9,911th most popular politician (down from 9,606th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 246th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Brazilian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 9,911 out of 15,577Before him are Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Paul van Zeeland, Jacques Poos, Paolo Boselli, Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, and Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Didier Burkhalter, Constans II, Anote Tong, Fyodor Rostopchin, Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus, and Carlos Agostinho do Rosário.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 39Before him are Karl Gützlaff, Edgar Quinet, Alexander von Nordmann, Franz Lachner, Ludwig Richter, and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. After him are Peter Chanel, Joseph Whitworth, Eugène Isabey, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Gustaaf Wappers. Among people deceased in 1880, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 30Before him are Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Jules Favre, Raden Saleh, Robert Fortune, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and Jules Antoine Lissajous. After him are Arthur Morin, Alphonse Pénaud, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, and Lucretia Mott.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 225 out of 2,067Before him are Thiago Motta (1982), Zequinha de Abreu (1880), Ronald Golias (1929), Cláudio Hummes (1934), José Bonifácio de Andrada (1763), and Philippe Coutinho (1992). After him are Antônio Fagundes (1949), Arthur Bernardes (1875), Hermes da Fonseca (1855), Epitácio Pessoa (1865), Mazinho (1966), and Hermeto Pascoal (1936).

Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias ranks 40Before him are Venceslau Brás (1868), Café Filho (1899), Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1841), Nilo Peçanha (1867), José Linhares (1886), and José Bonifácio de Andrada (1763). After him are Arthur Bernardes (1875), Hermes da Fonseca (1855), Epitácio Pessoa (1865), Afonso Pena (1847), Raoni Metuktire (1940), and Jaime Lerner (1937).