Soldado de África! Quantas medalhas te puseram no peito? Portugal e África numa Guerra Global

Abstract

Why being the Portuguese empire so embedded in the Portuguese imaginary the African war front where Portugal was present between 1914 and 1918, and to where the country mobilized around 50,000 men ended up overshadowed by the non-consensual intervention of the Portuguese army in Flanders?With this article it is intended to contribute to deepen the study of the reasons that stimulated the Portuguese intervention in Africa, contributing to the appreciation of the importance and impact that that presence had not only at a national level, but beyond the historiographical debate on interventionism and non-interventionism, and still of the perception of the role of Portugal and the Portuguese colonies in the study of the First World War in general.

Keywords

• Portugal
• First World War
• Africa