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| 9 March 1916 (Germany declared war on Portugal after the Portuguese government seized German merchant ships seeking refuge in its harbours) |
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Manoel de Arriaga: president, 1911-1915
Teofilo Braga: president, 1915
Bernardino Machado: president, 1915-1917
Sidonia Pais: president, 1917-1918 |
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| 33,000 men (1914). A total of 100,000 Portuguese troops served in Mozambique and on the Western Front during the war |
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| 1 battleship, 4 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 1 submarine (1914) |
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| 4 training aircraft (1916) |
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| Portuguese and German troops clashed on the frontier between German South-West Africa and Angola in 1914, but this did not lead to a formal declaration of war. |
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| 7,222 dead, 13,751 wounded |
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