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Rank�
in Portuguese Army Now
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Rank� in Portuguese Army 1800
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Rank�
in
British army
1800 & Now
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Typical
Position
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Pra�a
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Soldado
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Private
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Segundo-Cabo
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Anspe�ada
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Lance
Corporal
Private 1st class
Lance
Bombardier(RA)
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1� Cabo
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Cabo
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Corporal
Lance Sergeant
Bombardier (RA)
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Commander of a section
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Segundo -sargento
Furriel
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Furriel
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Sergeant
Third
Sergeant
Corporal of Horse (Cavalry)
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Commander of a section
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Primeiro-sargento
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Segundo Sargento
or Tambor-Mor
Quartel
Mestre Sargento
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Second
Sergeant
Staff
Sergeant
Colour
Sergeant
(introduced in� 1813)
Quartermaster Sergeant
Staff Corporal
(Cavalry)
Company Sergeant
(RA)
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Company Quartermaster
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Sargento-ajudante
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Primeiro-Sargento
Sargento
de Brigada
or
Ajudante
Sargento
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First
Sergeant
Quartermaster
Sergeant
Warrant Officer Class 2
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Company Sergeant
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Sargento-chefe
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Master-Sergeant
Company Sgt.
Major
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Company Sergeant
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Sargento-Mor
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Quartel-Mestre
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Sergeant-Major
Warrant Officer Class
Regimental
Sgt. Maj.
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Regiment Sergeant
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Cadete
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Cadete
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Officer
Cadet
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Created in 1757, as form of recruiting noble officials
for the Army. While they were not promoted to a full rank officer
position were subordinated to Sergeants
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Cadete Porta-Bandeira
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Rank created in 1797, due to the abolition of Porta-Bandeira
(Standard-bearer's) position.
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Alferes
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Alferes
(old� Porta-Bandeira
officer)
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2nd Lieutenant
Cornet
Ensign
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Platoon Commander
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Tenente
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2nd commander of a Company. Second-lieutenant in the
Artillery and Engineering
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Ajudante
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Official associate to a Major. Official engineer with
1st Lieutenant's position up to 1792
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Tenente
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1� Tenente
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Lieutenant
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2.nd commander of the companies that had the Colonels,
Lieutenant colonels and Majors as commanders. It was extinct in
1796, in the Infantry and Cavalry. In the Artillery and Engineering
was equal to Lieutenant's position.
Subsidiary command, Company level
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Capit�o
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Capit�o
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Captain
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Command at company level
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Major
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Sargento-mor
Major
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Major
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Officer responsible of the daily administration of
a Regiment, eventual commander of a Battalion or 2nd commander
of an independent battalion. An official of orders was considered
and not of command position.
Administration at battalion and command at 1/2 battalion
level
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Tenente-coronel
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Tenente-coronel
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Lieutenant
Colonel
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2nd commander of a Regiment, or commandant of an independent
Battalion, as Ca�adores Battalion.
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Coronel
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Coronel
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Colonel
(Colonel
of the Regiment)
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In Portugal, Commander of a Regiment - before call�
Mestre-de-Campo.
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Brigadeiro�
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Brigadeiro
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Brigadier
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Brigade
commander.
Rank
created in 1707 by D. Jo�o V for the Infantry and Cavalry, and
abolished in 1790. Reintroduced in 1796, due to the organization
of the army in Brigades
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Major general
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Marechal de Campo
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Major
General
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Division commander Commandant. Name given in 1762 to
the position Sargento-Mor De Batalha.
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Tenente general
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Tenente General
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Lieutenant
General
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Army Corp commander. Name given in 1762 to Mestre
de Campo General.
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General de Artilharia
(Appointment)
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This rank position was created in 1640 and it is the
simplification of the Capit�o-General de Artilharia
(Captain-general of Artillery), then in use in the Spanish army.
Inside of the own hierarchy of the army branch, he was the commander
of the Artillery of the counties, including the one of the marine
fortresses and of the war ships. It was extinct in the reform
of 1707/1708, but it reappear in the Pombal reform of 1762 again
(Count of Lippe) to pass to designate the Director-General of
the Artillery that was entrusted of the organization of that military
branch.
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General de Cavalaria
(Appointment)
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This rank is referred, for the first time, in the organization
of the army that King D.Sebasti�o took for Alc�cer-Quibir, and
he was the commandant of the whole Cavalry as the General of Artillery,
it is the simplification of the Captain-General of existent Cavalry
in Spain.
The rank stays after 1640, competing to its detainee
the government of the Cavalry of Kingdom. It was extinct in the
reform of 1707/1708, but renter in the Pombal reform of 1762 (Count
of Lippe) to designate the Director-General of the Cavalry that
was entrusted of the organization of the military branch.
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General de Infantaria
(Appointment)
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In the reform of 1640 as in the one of 1707 this position
doesn't appear in the structure of the Army, because the Mestre
de Campo General ( Master of General Field)� was by excellence,
the commander of the Infantry, the most numerous and important
military branch in manoeuvres, in spite of, in operations, to
have also under its command the units of Cavalry and of Artillery.
Just appears in the reform of 1762 (Conde of Lippe) to designate
the Director-General of the Infantry.
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General
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General
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General
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Marechal
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Field
Marshal
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General de Infantaria,
Cavalaria, or Artilharia
(Appointment)
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Name given in 1762 to the Directores-Gerais�
(Director-Generals), created in 1735. They were entrust of the
organization of the military branch that they directed, being
helped by the Inspectores-gerais (Inspector-generals) ,
that were subordinated them.
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Chefia do estado-maior do ramo
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Marechal do ex�rcito
(Appointment)
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Captain
General
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Commander-in-Chief of the Army, or Quartel Mestre
General (Quarter Master General) subordinate to the Secretary
of State of the Business of the War. The baron of Alvito was Marshal
of the army with Count of Lippe, just as Beresford with Wellington.
Was used for the first time by the Prince of Waldeck, in 1797
(Major-General William Carr Beresford)
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Chefe do Estado-Maior General das For�as Armadas
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Marechal General
(Appointment)
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General in Chief Command
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Created by Count of Lippe (1762), it was the Commander-in-Chief
of the armies, with direct access to the King. Equivalent to the
Capit�o-General (Captain-general). It was created in 1640 with
Capit�o General (General Captain) name in its primitive meaning.�
(Tenente-General Arthur Wellesley, and after the Peninsular,
War William Carr Beresford)
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