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and Pajehú

at Pitombas

and the Savaget column

and traps

Sebastian, King of Portugal

Sebastianist movement

Second Artillery Division

Second Battalion

Second Brigade

and assaults on Canudos

and the Guimarães expedition

and march to Canudos

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Favela

and organization of fourth expedition

and siege lines

second coming

Second Regiment

secret associations

sedition

Seixas, Nonato de

September revolt

the Serene Ones

serfs

Sergipe

and backland pilgrimages

and backlands climate

and Conselheiro’s travels

and the Guimarães expedition

and roads to Canudos

and the Savaget column

and settlement of the backlands

sericoias

seriemas

sermons of Conselheiro

Serra Branca

Serra do Mar

Serra Geral

Serra Martins, Julião Augusto da

and assaults on Canudos

and battle of Cocorobó

and the Guimarães expedition

and the Savaget column

and supply trains

and trench warfare

wounded

Serra Talhada

Serrinha

sertanejos

arms captured by

and artillery barrages

and assaults on Canudos

and backlands environment

and backlands religion

and cattle ranching

clothing

and Conselheiro’s followers

defined

and drought

escape route

and governance of Canudos

historical influences

intelligence on

and the Maciel family

and military tactics

and missionaries

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Cambaio

and mysticism

preparation of fortifications

and racial characteristics

and reconnaissance

and reinforcement troops

trap at Mount Favela

and urban warfare

and water supplies

sertão

and banditry

and Conselheiro’s followers

Conselheiro’s travels in

and crime

at Cumbe

and droughts

and evacuation of wounded

farmlands of

and guerrilla warfare

isolation of

at Jeremoabo

and
juazeiros

at Macambira

at Monte Santo

and the Moreira César expedition

and the Rock of Miracles

and routes to Canudos

and the Savaget column

and superstition

and title of book

and Uauá

and
umbú
trees

and
uricuri
palms

Sertão, Domingos

servitude

settlers.
See also bandeiras / bandeirante

and climate

and desertification

and growth of Canudos

and mining

and origins of Canudos

and racial mixing

and rebellions in the backlands

and the São Francisco River

Seventh Battalion

arrival at Canudos

and assaults on Canudos

casualties

and engineering units

and march to Canudos

and mobilization delays

and mobilization of fourth expedition

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Favela

and organization of fourth expedition

Seventh Brigade

Seventh of September Trench

Severino da Fonseca, João

Severino da Fonseca, Joan

sharpshooters

and ambushes

and assaults on Canudos

and church towers

and trench warfare

shrines

siege cannon.
See also
Whitworth 32 cannon

siege lines

Sighele, Scipio

Silva, Henrique Severiano da

silva aesta aphyla

Silva Barbosa, João da

and assaults on Canudos

and expedition timeline

move to Gitirana

move to Rosário

and organization of expeditions

and prisoners of war

wounded

silva horrida

Silva Jardim Battalion

Silva Telles, Carlos Maria da

and assaults on Canudos

and battle reports

and bayonet charges

and Macambira skirmish

and organization of fourth expedition

and prisoners of war

and the Savaget column

wounded

Silveira, Olympio da

and artillery barrages

and artillery units

and assaults on Canudos

march to Canudos

and organization of expeditions

silver mines

Simão Dias

simaruba

Simões, Felipe

Simões Pinto, Pedro

Sincorá Mountains

Sincorá Ranges

siphonia

Siqueira de Menezes (Colonel)

and assaults on Canudos

and battle accounts

and end of siege

and military engineering

and supply routes

and telegraph line

Sitio farm

Sixteenth Battalion

and artillery transportation

casualties

and march to Canudos

march to Pitombas

and mobilization of fourth expedition

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Cambaio

and siege lines

Sixth Brigade

and assaults on Canudos

and battle of Cocorobó

and the Guimarães expedition

and Macambira skirmish

and the Savaget column

slavery

smallpox

snipers

and ambushes

and assaults on Canudos

and church towers

and trench warfare

Soares, Gabriel

Sobradinho River

social Darwinism

social instability

Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Sólon Ribeiro, Ana

Sólon Ribeiro, Frederico

Sousa Pimentel, André Jacinto de

Souza, Carlos Augusto de

Souza, Tomé de

Souza Campos (Captain)

Souza Menezes (Colonel)

Souza Velho, José Américo C. de

Spanish moss

Spencer, Herbert

spies.
See also
scouting and reconnaissance

Spinosa, Bruzzo

Spruce, Richard

stampedes

Stavans, Ilan

steppes

Stone, I. F.

stürmisch
sect

subversives

sugarcane culture

suicide

sunspots

superstition and folklore

and backlands religion

and Conselheiro’s followers

and drought

and evening prayers

and
jagunço
fighters

legends of Conselheiro

and manner of death

and marching dates

and mestizo religion

supplies for expeditions.
See also
food supplies; water sources

and ambushes

and ammunition shortages

arrival at Mount Favela

attacks on

and the Auxiliary Division

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

and the Calumbi road

to Canudos

and food rations

and foraging parties

and the Girard Brigade

and guerrilla warfare

and the Guimarães expedition

jagunço
supplies

loss of

and march to Canudos

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Favela

surgeons

Sussuarana Farm

syncretic religion

syntax issues

Tabajara Indians

tabareo

tabaréus

tablelands

Tabuleirinhos

Taine, Hippolyte

Tamarindo, Pedro Nunes

and attack on Canudos

body displayed

death

leadership failures

and march to Angico

and the Moreira César expedition

and organization of expeditions

and retreat from Canudos

rumors about

Tanquinho

tapirs

Tapuia Indians

tapuí-retama

taquara

Taques, Pedro

taxation

tejupás

telegraph

terra incognita

tertiary terrains

Tertullian

Third Battalion

Third Brigade

and assaults on Canudos

and end of siege

and the Guimarães expedition

and march to Canudos

at Mount Favela

and organization of fourth expedition

at Rosário

and siege lines

skirmish at Ribeirão dos Pereiras

Thirteenth Battalion

Thirtieth Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

casualties

and march to Canudos

and mobilization of fourth expedition

at Mount Favela

and organization of fourth expedition

at Queimadas

Thirty-eighth Battalion

Thirty-fifth Battalion

Thirty-first Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

and battle of Cocorobó

casualties

and the Guimarães expedition

and Macambira skirmish

and mobilization of fourth expedition

and the Savaget column

and siege lines

Thirty-fourth Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

and the Calumbi road

casualties

and the Guimarães expedition

and mobilization of fourth expedition

and trench warfare

Thirty-ninth Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

and Bittencourt’s reinforcements

casualties

and Macambira skirmish

Thirty-second Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

casualties

and end of siege

and the Guimarães expedition

at Macambira

and march to Canudos

and mobilization of fourth expedition

and siege lines

skirmish at Ribeirão dos Pereiras

Thirty-seventh Battalion

Thirty-third Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

and battle accounts

desertions

and the Guimarães expedition

at Macambira

and mobilization of fourth expedition

at Monte Santo

and the Moreira César expedition

at Mount Cambaio

and organization of expeditions

and siege lines

Thucydides

Tietê River

Tiradentes Battalion

Tobias, Raphael

Todi, Apolônio de

Tolentino (Doctor)

topography.
See also
geography of the backlands

Tourinho, Sebastião

Trabubú

trabuco

traditions of the backlands

training of soldiers

trains.
See
railways

translation issues

transportation.
See also
logistics; railways; supplies for expeditions

treason.
See also
desertions

trenches

and Andrade Guimarães

and assaults on Canudos

and battle of Cocorobó

at Mount Favela

at Rosário highway

and Serra Martins

Seventh of September Trench

and siege lines

tube reeds

Tucano

Tunisia

Tupi Indians

Tupinquim Indians

Turreau, Louis Marie

Twelfth Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

casualties

and the Guimarães expedition

and Macambira skirmish

and mobilization of fourth expedition

and the Savaget column

Twenty-eighth Battalion

Twenty-fifth Battalion

and artillery transportation

and assaults on Canudos

and the Auxiliary Division

and the camp at Canudos

casualties

and march to Canudos

and march to Pitombas

and mobilization of fourth expedition

at Mount Favela

Twenty-fifth Brigade

Twenty-fourth Battalion

Twenty-ninth Battalion

Twenty-second Battalion

Twenty-seventh Battalion

Twenty-sixth Battalion

and assaults on Canudos

and the Auxiliary Division

and the camp at Canudos

casualties

and the Guimarães expedition

at Macambira

at Monte Santo

and organization of expeditions

Uauá

Uauá road

Umburana Hills

Umburanas lowlands

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