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Tenentism

Tenente revolts
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The Tenentes leaders after leaving the Copacabana fort on 6 July 1922.
Date 1922-1930
Location Large part of Brazil, mainly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraíba, Amazonas and Pará
Result Loyalist victory, mutiny suppressed.
Belligerents

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  • Soldiers mutineers (Army and Navy)
  • Armed civilians
  • Guerrilha in Prestes column

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Commanders and leaders
Gen. Isidoro Dias Lopes
Col. Joaquim Fernandes Távora 
Mjr. Miguel Costa
Cpt. Luís Carlos Prestes
Cpt. Euclides Hermes da Fonseca
Lt. Siqueira Campos
Lt. Eduardo Gomes
Lt. Nílton Prado 
Lt. Ribeiro Junior
Lt. Juarez Távora
Epitácio Pessoa
Artur Bernardes
Washington Luís
Carlos de Campos
César do Rego Monteiro
Gen. Setembrino de Carvalho
Gen. Abílio Noronha
Gen. João de Deus Barreto
Col. Fernando Prestes
Strength
301 in Copacabana Fort revolt
3,500 in Paulista Revolt 1924
1,500 in Prestes Column
Unknown number of military mutineers in the rest of the country.
Approximately 100,000 men loyalists
Casualties and losses
Large number of human and material losses

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Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg First Brazilian Republic

Tenentism (Portuguese: tenentismo) was a political philosophy of junior army officers (Portuguese: tenentes, IPA: [teˈnẽtʃis], lieutenants) who contributed significantly to the Brazilian Revolution of 1930.

The first decades of the 20th century saw marked economic and social change in Brazil. With manufacturing on the rise, the central government—dominated by the coffee oligarchs and the old order of café com leite and coronelismo—came under threat from the political aspirations of new urban groups: professionals, government and white-collar workers, merchants, bankers, and industrialists. In parallel, growing prosperity encouraged a rapid rise in the population of new working class Southern and Eastern European immigrants, who contributed to the growth of trade unionism, anarchism, and socialism. In the post-World War I period, Brazil saw its first wave of general strikes and the establishment of the Communist Party in 1922.


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