Acta Volume I

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The role of the military in political transitions: 

from the 18th century to the present day

Acta 2024

XLIX International Congress of Military History

1 - 6 September 2024, Lisbon - Portugal

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Published by:
Portuguese Commission of Military History
Av. Ilha da Madeira, n.º 1, Room 332
1400-204 Lisboa - Portugal

Coordinator and editor: Jorge Silva Rocha, PhD

ISBN: 978-989-8593-31-3

DOI for this volume: https://doi.org/10.56092/GDSK9438

Volume I​

Contents​

OPENING​​​ SESSION

Hermínio Maio

Opening remarks by the Military University Institute Commander 

João Vieira Borges 

Speech by the President of the Portuguese Commission of Military History 

Massimo de Leonardis

Inaugural speech by the President of the International Commission of Military History

Nuno Melo

Speech by the Minister of National Defence

KEYNOTE SPEECH

António José Telo​

The Military and the Regime Change in Portugal​

SESSION A1 — Transitions in the18th cen​​tury

Claudia Reichl-Ham

Sine Nobis, De No​bis (Without Us [They Decided] About ​Us) The Kuruc Movement Under Francis II Rákóczi and its Fight Against the Habsburgs for the ‘Liberation’ of Hungary ​

Sandrine Picaud-Monnerat

Une Victoire Lourde à Porter: L’administration Militaire de Berg-Op-Zoom Par les Français en 1747 et 1748 

Miguel Corrêa Monteiro

The Guarani War (1753-1756) and the Role Played by the Combined Portuguese and Spanish Forces​

Tomasz Ciesielski 

Russian Armed Intervention in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Years 1733-1736 ​​

SESSIO​​N A2 — National transitions - Switzerland

Marco Ciampini

The New Model Army in the English Revolution. The Importance and Role of Military Structures in the Social and Political Developments of New England ​

Jean-Marc Hochstrasser

Importance des Événements Politiques Dans Les Pays où se Trouvaient des Mercenaires Suisses sur ces Derniers et Inversement​

Derck. Ch. Engelberts

Révolution(s) Helvétique(s) et Forces Armées Françaises en 1798: une Situation Atypique​

Dominique Andrey

Influences du Système de Milice Sur la Création de la Suisse Moderne​

​​SESSION A3 — War and Revolutions in the 19th Century

Fred L. Borch 

The U.S. Army & Reconstruction: Changing the “Established Power” in the Southern States (1865-1877)​

Carmen-Sorina Rijnoveanu 

The Role of Military in the Political Transition from an Indigenous Ruler to A Foreign Prince. The Coup of February 11, 1866, in the Romanian Principalities​

José Subtil & Daniel Estudante Protásio

Portugal’s First Counter-Revolutionary Moment: Vilafrancada Coup (1823). Major Hypothesis for Understanding What Happened ​

Rui Moura

Kingdom of Portugal, 1824 Abrilada.  Comments to Help Understanding a Coup D’état​

SESSION B1 — Transitions in Latin ​​​America

Oreste Foppiani

The U.S. Military Intervention and Administration in Cuba and th​e Philippines, 1898 –1905