| rdfs:comment | - As platoon leader, while serving in this unit (which ranks, at the time of his arrival, were consisted mostly by colonial troops), he was decorated by Belgians and French for courage in action, which he insisted should be credited to the bravery of his subordinates. By war's end, while hospitalized victim of typhoid fever, he had an affair with an English nurse, who later became his wife. After retire from military life, in his last years during the 1950s, he cooperated on the planning of the then new Brazilian capital, Brasilia.
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| abstract | - As platoon leader, while serving in this unit (which ranks, at the time of his arrival, were consisted mostly by colonial troops), he was decorated by Belgians and French for courage in action, which he insisted should be credited to the bravery of his subordinates. By war's end, while hospitalized victim of typhoid fever, he had an affair with an English nurse, who later became his wife. Upon his return to Brazil after the war, he drew on his experiences endeavouring for reform and update the Brazilian Army. Although he has achieved relative success regarding some institution's internal matters (as e.g. on the reform of the Brazilian Army Academy), his (post 1930) position against the involvement of the military in politics and civil life, gradually moved him away from the center of military power. Such that his war experiences, which partly he made public through the 1921 book "Os Tanks na Guerra Européia" ("Tanks in the European war"), that could have been seminal for the development and upkeep of a modern Army armoured corps; after a shy start in early 1920s, were not longer availed by the High Command, even during World War II, when became necessary the creation of an Expeditionary Force. After retire from military life, in his last years during the 1950s, he cooperated on the planning of the then new Brazilian capital, Brasilia.
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