Câmara Leme (Dom Jorge da)
Original title: Câmara Leme (D. Jorge da)
Funchal-born liberal soldier (1807–1889) who went into exile, landed at Mindelo in 1832 and fought through the Liberal Wars.
He was born in Funchal on 13 March 1807, and on 2 December 1826 he enlisted as a volunteer in the 1st Grenadier Company of the 4th Infantry Regiment. He was, however, discharged from the service shortly after the restoration of absolute government in Portugal. Having emigrated to England because of his liberal ideas, he went from there to the island of Terceira, where he enlisted in the 5th Caçadores (Portuguese light infantry) Battalion, which landed on the beaches of Mindelo on 8 July 1832. He served throughout the whole campaign for liberty, up to the Convention of Évora-Monte, by which time he held the rank of second lieutenant. He died on 8 July 1889, then a retired army lieutenant.
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Abroad
- England
United Kingdom. Where he emigrated for his liberal ideas.
England appears in the Elucidário as the first main market for Madeira embroidery and the main importer of Madeiran wicker. It was also the source of most butter consumed in Funchal in the early nineteenth century. It was a chief refuge for liberal emigrants fleeing Miguelist persecution, and several Madeirans studied or served as diplomats there.
- Évora Monte
Portugal. Site of the convention ending the Liberal Wars.
Évora Monte is a place in Portugal where the convention of 1834 that ended the civil war between Liberals and Absolutists was signed.
- Funchal
His birthplace.
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 army landed in 1832.
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.
- Terceira
Portugal. Azorean island where he joined caçadores battalion no. 5.
An Azorean island that served as the Liberal base where D. Pedro's expedition assembled and from which the force occupying Porto Santo came. Nicolau Pita was banished there, João Bettencourt de Vasconcellos was executed there and Acursio Garcia Ramos was born there.
People
People mentioned · 01- D. Jorge da Câmara Leme1807–1889
Liberal volunteer who fought in the 1832–34 campaign and retired as lieutenant; subject of this entry.