A PARTICIPAÇÃO DE GOIÁS NA DEFESA DA FRONTEIRA OESTE E NORTE DO IMPÉRIO ATLÂNTICO PORTUGUÊS DE 1750 A 1821.

Abstract

This is a dissertation entitled PARTICIPATION IN THE DEFENSE OF THE BORDER GOIÁS WEST AND NORTH ATLANTIC PORTUGUESE EMPIRE 1750 TO 1821. Presented to the Graduate Course in History at the Catholic University of Goias - PUC-GO.This is a research paper on the history of Goias and aimed to investigate the importance of Goiás in the context of the Portuguese Empire, not only as a producer of gold, as is usually portrayed in the historiography of Goiás, Goiás but determining how to participate in the defense of limits and west of the central territories of colonial Brazil.The active participation of the Province of Goiás in the protection of the Province of Mato Grosso was made with the aid of gold, the fifth, and taxes to fund the defense of the west limits of colonial Brazil. And with the deployment of troops, when requested, to the Captain of Mato Grosso and Para, to defend the limits of colonial Brazil in those territories. Goiás served as the fulcrum of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire in territories far from the coast and difficult to access. For the Portuguese Atlantic Empire to defend the province of Mato Grosso and Para, and Tocantins River Basin it was important because they are regions rich in gold and tropical products; if these regions were occupied would threaten the state of Minas Gerais and the coastal Brazilian colony.