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    Minas Geraes, spelled Minas Gerais in some sources, was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. Named in honor of the state of Minas Gerais, the...
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    Two Minas Geraes-class battleships were built for the Brazilian Navy in the early twentieth century. Named Minas Geraes and São Paulo, these "dreadnought"...
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    São Paulo was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. It was the second of two ships in the Minas Geraes class, and was named after the state and...
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  • time. Despite the fact that Brazil had more ships than the other two nations, including the two battleships of the Minas Geraes class, the possible commissioning...
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    South American dreadnought race (category Battleships)
    321; Scheina, "Brazil," 404; Topliss, "Brazilian Dreadnoughts," 249; "The Brazilian Battleship," United States Artillery, 188; "Minas Geraes I," Serviço...
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  • Minas Gerais is the second-most populous state of Brazil Minas Gerais or Minas Geraes may also refer to: Campeonato Mineiro, the Brazilian name for the...
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    South American dreadnought race and a counter to Brazil's two Minas Geraes-class battleships. In 1904, Brazil scrapped a previous naval building program in...
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    mission in 1907 was to convey the Brazilian Naval Commission to take delivery of the new battleships, Minas Geraes and São Paulo. Riachuelo was deactivated...
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    surviving battleship, Nagato to the United States following World War II.  Brazilian Navy: decommissioned its last battleship Minas Geraes in 1952.  Italian...
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    she introduced an Anglican choral service in the launching ceremony for battleship Alexandra. The usage continues with the singing of Psalm 107 with its...
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    extensive quotation from this article appears in [[Minas Geraes-class battleship|Minas Geraes-class battleship]]. "Memoria Da Imigração Japonesa No Brasil"...
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    battery than any other battleship afloat at the time (twelve 12-inch/45 calibre guns). Two were completed for Brazil: Minas Geraes was laid down on by Armstrong...
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  • Brazilian battleship Rio de Janeiro may refer to: A cancelled battleship of the Minas Geraes class contracted to Brazil. A battleship contracted to Brazil...
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  • between Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, which was ended only by the advent of the First World War. Brazil's first two dreadnoughts, Minas Geraes and São...
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    EOC 12-inch 45-calibre naval gun (category Naval weapons of Brazil)
    the Minas Geraes-class battleships completed by itself and Vickers in 1910 for Brazil. When World War I began, Elswick were completing the battleship Sultân...
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    their purchase. In March 1907, they signed a contract for three Minas Geraes-class battleships. Two ships would be constructed immediately by the British companies...
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    João Cândido Felisberto (category 20th-century Brazilian military personnel)
    revolt, known in Brazil as "Revolta da Chibata" ("Revolt of the Lash"). Sailors took control of two Brazilian battleships, Minas Geraes and São Paulo, both...
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  • of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the...
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    large naval building plan. The centerpiece of the new navy would be two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts built by the United Kingdom. The order for these powerful...
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    United States command, Brazilian troops fought primarily in the liberation of Italy from September 1944 to May 1945, while the Brazilian Navy and Air Force...
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    to a head in November 1910, when sailors aboard the new dreadnought Minas Geraes rebelled, and the crews of Deodoro, another new dreadnought (São Paulo)...
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  • Anahuac Marechal Floriano (1899) – Discarded, broken up 1936 Minas Geraes class Minas Geraes (1910) – Broken up 1954 São Paulo (1910) – Sank in storm while...
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    launched in 1906, leading Brazil to alter her order for two, far more expensive vessels of a similar design. Minas Geraes and São Paulo instantly changed...
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    punishment slaves received. The mutineers took control of the battleship Minas Geraes and threatened to fire on the city. Another military revolt occurred...
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    transported the crew of the battleship Minas Geraes to Newcastle (where the battleship was being built). In 1910, the ship represented Brazil at the centennial...
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    This is a list of active Brazilian Navy ships. The Navy has approximately 134 ships in commission, including 39 auxiliary ships. 8 frigates/corvettes...
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    commission, behind the United Kingdom and Germany, but just ahead of Brazil's Minas Geraes class—and its shakedown cruise lasted until 7 June. South Carolina's...
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    This is a list of battleships of the Second World War. All displacements are at standard load, in metric tonnes, so as to avoid confusion over their relative...
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    dreadnoughts. These ships, commissioned as the Minas Geraes class, were designed to carry the heaviest battleship armament in the world at the time. They came...
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    then under construction for the Brazilian Navy, along with Minas Geraes, which had been commissioned into the Brazilian fleet in 1910. These deals fell...
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