Camacho (Jacinto Augusto)
Biography of Jacinto Augusto Camacho (1815–1885), a Funchal-born Liberal soldier who fought in the civil war and rose to brigadier general.
He was the son of Colonel António Fernandes Camacho and was born in Funchal on 3 January 1815. Having emigrated with his family to the Azores to escape persecution by the Miguelists, he enlisted there as a cadet in the 3rd Caçadores (Portuguese light infantry) Battalion and accompanied the expedition that landed on the beaches of Mindelo. He distinguished himself in several engagements and formed part of the forces sent to the Algarve under the command of the Duke of Terceira. He held the medal of the Liberal campaigns, the commandery of the Order of Aviz and the insignia of the Order of the Conception. Promoted to second lieutenant in 1832, he reached the rank of brigadier general on 8 May 1877, and died in the city of Porto on 7 June 1885.
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- Algarve
Portugal. Region where he served under the Duke of Terceira.
The Algarve is a region of mainland Portugal that supplied many early Madeiran settlers, notably from Boliqueime, and probably cattle. Zarco guarded its coast as captain, and Bartolomeu Perestrelo died there. Simão Gonçalves da Câmara put in there on his aborted voyage to Spain.
- Azores
Portugal. Where his family emigrated to escape Miguelist persecution and where he enlisted.
The Azores, an Atlantic archipelago that shares plant species with Madeira. The Elucidário records settlement there by Madeiran families such as the Bettencourts, the 1801 ban on Azorean wines in Madeira, and imports of Azorean tobacco. It also notes that Azorean farmers were brought to Madeira to teach maize-growing methods.
- Funchal
Birthplace of Jacinto Augusto Camacho.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Mindelo
Cape Verde. Beaches where the Liberal expedition he joined landed.
Mindelo is a foreign place whose beaches were the landing point of D. Pedro's liberal expedition in 1832. Several Madeirans took part in that landing.
- Porto
Portugal. City where he died.
A Portuguese city, where the 1820 liberal revolution began and whose district is the only one denser than Funchal's. Several Madeirans studied at its medical school or Academia Politécnica, and some lived or died there. The editor of O Funchalense Liberal was hanged there, and Marítimo beat FC Porto there in 1922.
People
People mentioned · 03- Jacinto Augusto Camacho1815–1885
Funchal-born Liberal officer who landed at Mindelo in 1832 and became a brigadier general in 1877.
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Colonel and father of Jacinto Augusto Camacho.
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Liberal commander of the forces sent to the Algarve in which Camacho served.