Joaquim Marques Lisboa
Joaquim Marques Lisboa was born in Rio Grande do Sul, the southerner province of Brazil on December 17, 1807. Son of a militia captain he joined the Imperial Navy by the time D. Pedro I was assembling men and officers to form the naval force. Marques Lisboa was 15 years-old when he was sent aboard the frigate  Niterói.
He entered the Naval Academy as cadet, but when the conflagration erupted in the province of Pernambuco in 1824 he left the academy. He fought during this period under command of Lord Cochrane, returning to naval studies in 1826. Soon he is  promoted to 2nd lieutenant being dispatched to the southerner conflicts in command of the scooner Constança. While in a  mission in Patagonia in 1827, he was captured. Later Marques Lisboa and his crew obtained freedom by capturing an Argentinean vessel, heading for  Montevideo, by that time under control of the Empire.
In 1840 he is promoted to captain and in 1856 he obtained the rank of vice-admiral.
As commander of naval forces on La Plata region in 1864, he ordered the siege of Uruguay coast, deploying naval troops (marines) on Salto and  Paissandu.  Later he sent troops to  Montevidéu, by that time under control of general Venâncio Flores, chief of Colorado Party and allied to Brazil against the Blanco government. When the Triple Alliance war erupted, Marques Lisboa blocked the Paraguay and Paraná rivers.
By 1867 he is appointed as admiral.  By the time Republic was proclaimed he took seat in the Military Supreme Court. On March 20,1897 he died in Rio de Janeiro just a few days after  he retired from military life.
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