Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes
Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, 2nd Viscount of Montalegre, was a Portuguese soldier, born 1770, who served on the absolutist side in Portugal's Liberal Wars.
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| Born | 18 August 1770 Vila Real, Kingdom of Portugal |
| Died | 10 May 1841 (aged 70) Kingdom of Portugal |
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| Service/ | Portuguese Army |
| Years of service | 1784–1834 |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Battles/wars | Peninsular War Liberal Wars |
| Awards | Campaign Cross of the Peninsular War Comendador of the Order of Christ Comendador of the Order of the Tower and Sword |
As the military commander in Trás-os-Montes in 1823, he raised a rebellion in the name of the absolutist prince, Infante Dom Miguel of Portugal. During the civil war between Dom Miguel and his elder brother, the former Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil, he was a prominent Miguelite general: he was in joint command of the Miguelite army at the Battle of Ponte Ferreira, and was the Miguelite commander at the Battle of Asseiceira in which Miguel's cause was finally defeated.
After the war ended, he was cashiered from the army in 1834. He wrote memoirs justifying his actions, and died in 1841.
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