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Portuguese Legion

Loyal Lusitanian Legion, 1808, a unit of the British Army, composed of Portuguese volunteers.



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Carlos Góis Mota

It was also by his initiative that he and the Services of Information of the Portuguese Legion then headed by retired Education Inspector Parente de Figueiredo and which included also journalist Luís Lupi, hired, in order to become a special agent in Angola Fernando da Conceição Araújo, a former merchant and colonist at New Lisbon who had bankrupt, remaining his supervisor.

Freire de Andrade

Gomes Freire de Andrade (1757 – 1817), a Portuguese general officer who served in the Portuguese Legion (Legião Portuguesa) in Russia