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marches through

and mobility

at Monte Santo

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Favela

and racial makeup of Brazil

and refugees

scholarly differences on

and scouting missions

and settlement of the backlands

and the tablelands

and warfare in the brushlands

wildlife of

caboclos

and backland traditions

and Conselheiro’s followers

and Cunha’s writing style

and defense of Canudos

and diversity of Canudos

and racial development of the backlands

and reinforcement troops

Cabral Range

cacti

cafuzos

and backland
mestizos

and Conselheiro’s followers

defined

and diversity of Canudos

and racial development of the backlands

and the Rock of Miracles

and surrenders from Canudos

Caipã

caipira

caitetú

cajá

Cajazeiras

cajuí

Calçada

Caldas, Francisco

Caldeirão

Caldeirão Grande

Calumbi range

Calumbi road

Camaçarí

Camarão’s Indians

Cambaio range

Cambaio road

and artillery barrages

and defense of Canudos

and march to Canudos

and military engineering

and Mount Favela

and siege lines

and supply routes

Campeiro, Saint

Campello França, Manuel Gonçalves

camp followers

Campo Osório

campos gerais

Canabrava

Canastra Range

candombá

candomblé

cangaceiros

cannonballs

Cansanção

Canudos

and conclusion of
Os sertões

and Conselheiro’s army

and Conselheiro’s sermons

diversity of population

escape routes

and evening prayers

final assaults on

and first expedition

fortifications

and gender relations

and the Girard Brigade

governance of

growth of

and Macambira skirmish

and Monte Santo

and Moreira César expedition’s

and mysticism of Canudos

national focus on

origins

police force

Red Houses section

size of

temple

Canudos
(Marcondes)

canudos
(plant)

Capanema, Baron de

caper plants

Capim Grosso

Capuchins

caraíba

Caraíbas range

Caraíbas River

Caraibinhas

carandá
palms

Cardim, Fernão

Cariacá River

Carinhanha

Carirí Indians

carnauba wax palm

Carneiro, Gomes

caroas

and climate of the backlands

described

fibers of

and
sertanejos

Carthage

Carvalho, Bernabé José de

Carvalho, Martins

Carvalho Aragão, Salvador Pires de

Carvalho (Sublieutenant)

Carved Mountains

Casa da Torre

Casal, Manuel Aires de

Castro, Apulchro de

casualties

and artillery barrages

and assaults on Canudos

and battle of Cocorobó

and battle of Uauá

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

burial of

and climate of the backlands

and evacuation of the wounded

and the Girard Brigade

of
jagunços

at Monte Santo

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Cambaio

at Mount Favela

official figures

at Pitombas

and prisoners of war

and public opinion

on road to Monte Santo

at the tablelands

and unburied dead

and urban warfare

Catholic Church

and backlands religion

and Conselheiro

and Conselheiro’s followers

and mestizo religion

and Montanism

and significance of Canudos rebellion

cattle and cattle ranching

and backland races

brands

and Conselheiro’s followers

and cowboys

and drought

and flora of the backlands

and the Jesuits

and refugees

and roundups

and the São Francisco River

and settlement of the backlands

and stampedes

and traditions

cavalry.
See also
Ninth Cavalry

and ambushes

animals stolen from

and assaults on Canudos

and Bittencourt

casualties

and cowboys

and end of siege

facilities for

and lance squadron

at Macambira

march to Canudos

march to Pitombas

and Moreira César expedition

at Mount Favela

and scouting

and supply trains

and trench warfare

Caxomongó

Ceará

Celeste, Pedro

central plateau

cerebral deficiency

Cereus jamacaru

Cereus peruvianus

Cervantes, Miguel de

Cesalpinia

César, Moreira

chapels

Chiavenato, Júlio José

Chico Ema (“Ostrich Kid”)

childhood of Antonio Conselheiro

children

choradinho

Chorrochó

Chrisanto (Lieutenant)

Christianity.
See also
Catholic Church

Churchill, Winston

cisterns

civil engineering

civil government

civilistas

civil war

classical warfare

climate of the backlands.
See also
drought; environment of the backlands; weather

and data collection

and desertification process

and disease

and drought

and environmental degradation

and ethnography

and geography of the backlands

and geology of the backlands

and Monte Santo

Climates of Brazil
(Draenert)

Cocais Range

cochineal bugs

Cocobocó, Fabrício de

coconuts

Cocorobó range

and the Auxiliary Division

battle at

and bayonet charges

and description of the backlands

and the fourth expedition

and
jagunço
sentries

topography of

Coelho, Diogo

Coiqui, Quimquim de

Colégio Aquino

colonialism

Comblains

communications.
See also
telegraph

Comte, Auguste

conspiracies

Contrastes e confrontos
(da Cunha)

Convento do Carmo

convents

coral trees

Cordeiro, Manoel Batista

Coriolano, Odilon

Corografia Brazilica
(Casal)

Costa, Araújo da

Costa, José Lauriano da

Costa, M.

Costa, Manoel Francisco da

Costa e Silva (Captain)

Coutinho, J. Villar

Coutinho, Nestor Vilar Barreto

cowboys.
See also
gauchos;
jagunços

and backlands religion

and cattle ranching

and Conselheiro’s followers

and drought

and
jagunços

at Monte Santo

and racial characteristics of
sertanejos

and reconnaissance missions

and roundups

and settlement of the backlands

and stampedes

and traditions

and war refugees

Coxomongó range

Crane, Stephen

creeping
quipá
vines

crime and criminals

and antecedents to Canudos

and Canudos

and Conselheiro’s army

war crimes

Cruz, José da

cults of the dead

cumanans

Cumbe

cunanã

Cunha, Euclides da

ancestry

birth

education

family life

and Floriano Peixoto

and military engineering

personal life

physical appearance

travels

Cunha, Euclides da (son)

Cunha, Philomeno José da

Cunha Mattos, Raphael Augusto da

and the Girard Brigade

and march to Angico

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Favela

report on expedition

and retreat from Canudos

curibocas

curses

dams

Dantas Barreto, Emydio

and assaults on Canudos

march to Canudos

at Mount Favela

Darwinism.
See also
evolution

Day of Judgment

defections.
See also
desertions

defensive structures.
See also
trenches

deforestation

Della Cava, Ralph

Democrat

democratization

demographic patterns.
See also
race and ethnicity

Deodoro Battalion

Derby, Orville A.

desertions

and battle accounts

and battle losses

from Canudos

from expedition forces

and the Girard Brigade

pack drivers

deserts

desertification process

and geography of the backlands

and settlement of the backlands

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
(Guimarães Rosa)

diamond mining

Diario de uma expedição
(
Diary of an Expedition
) (da Cunha)

Días, Belchior

Dias, Gonçalves

Dias, Henrique

Dias, Robério

Dias Taño

discipline

diseases

Doce River

Don Quixote de La Mancha
(Cervantes)

doves

draft

drought.
See also
climate of the backlands

and Canudos

and cattle ranching

and climate of the backlands

and desertification

and environmental degradation

and evacuation of wounded

and geography of the backlands

and marches through the backlands

and settlement of the backlands

Dutch population

dwarf cashews

dynamite bombs

Eannes, Gil

earthquakes

economics

education of backlanders

education of da Cunha

elections

emboabas

Emerald Mountains

Encratites

engineering corps

camp at Canudos

casualties

and executions

and the Moreira César expedition

and railway plans

and reconnaissance work

and Siqueira de Menezes

and telegraph lines

and transportation

entertainment in the backlands

entradas

environment of the backlands.
See also
climate of the backlands

and backlands religion

damage to

and desertification

and ethnography

impact on history

and racial development

epilepsy

Eschwege, Wilhelm Ludwig von

Escobar, Tito

Espinhaço Range

Estêvão

Estrada, Duque

ethics codes

ethnicity.
See
race and ethnicity

evacuation of the wounded

evening prayers

evolution

Évora

executions

Exemplary Novels
(Cervantes)

exiles.
See also
refugees

explorers.
See also bandeiras / bandeirante;
settlers

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism
(Sarmiento)

family feuds

family life of da Cunha

fanaticism of Conselheiro’s followers

fasting

favelas
(plant)

Fazenda do Escuro

Felix, José “the Talker”

Ferreira Caldas, Antônio Tupy

Ferreira expedition

festival days

feudalism

feuds

field hospitals

at Canudos

at Mario’s Hill

at Mount Favela

on road to Monte Santo

Fifteenth Battalion

Fifteenth Brigade

Fifth Artillery

Fifth Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

casualties

and engineering units

at Juá

livestock captured from

mobilization of

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