Luis Lopes by junge1
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This statue of Luis Lopes is located on the southeast corner of Rua Garcia d'Avila and Rua Visconde de Piraja in Ipanema. When I saw this small statue, obviously of some sort of military action, it caught my attention. Normally statues of military men are often showing them riding horses or some other way showing their importance.
But this little, insignificant looking man blowing a trumpet piqued my curiosity. Who was he? There was a brass plague on the post explaining the statue, but of course I couldn't read it. I took a picture of this plaque and once back home I tried to make sense of it. I noticed a couple of names and a date and put them into the computer and here is what I found via a translated version of Wikipedia.
The Battle of Piraja in the Province of Bahia occurred on November 8, 1822. In this battle Portuguese Forces fought the Peacemaker Army of Brazil. The Portuguese were under the command of Captain Inacio Luis Madeira de Melo and the Brazilian Peacemaker Army was led by French General Pierre Labatut.
At one point the battle wasn't going too well for the Brazilians Peacemaker Army and, according to a statement by Tobias Monteiro in his 'The Development of Independence' in which Major Barros Falcao, who led the Brazilian troops at one point, ordered his bugler to blow a retreat. The bugler however, Luis Lopes, on his on accord blew 'Cavalry, forward and beheaded' instead.
This frightened the Portuguese, they panicked and retreated, encouraging the Brazilians who attacked with renewed enthusiasm and won the battle. Ironically the charge blown was for the cavalry but there was no Brazilian cavalry in battle.
This battle was one of several that eventually led to the independence of Brazil.
This picture was taken on 19 June 2011,
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Comments (33)
annie5
This statue is very cool and love the pose too! :)
rachris480907
Great shot and info! TFS!
MagikUnicorn
UNIQUE :)
jophoto
Amazing story!
Minda
This is Really AMAZING sig EXCELLENT INFO,gREAT STATUE..
bkhook
What a statue.. love this artist. What a capture, awesome photography.
ArtistKimberly
beautiful image
npauling
An excellent capture of this great statue and what a super story about him too.
Richardphotos
the man that dared to be heroic and saved the day
HannaK
Lovely little fellow, excellent capture. Thanks for sharing the information.
kgb224
Stunning capture my friend. God Bless.
blondeblurr
There is something about this statue that really tickles my fancy - absolutely comical and so much fun, also so much better, than the usual ones on horses or whatever ? ... BTW thanks for the all info, well done, BB
Lashia
haha what an awesome character! Great shot- thanks for sharing! :)
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qrud
I love it, real perfect. Amazing excellent artwork.
farmerC
Exellent shot.
bazza
Well I guess this is one time a mistake has worked out just right for them. Great shot and statue Sig..
mariogiannecchini
An excellent capture of this great statue !Interesting info !
flaviok
Fascinante meu amigo, captura e texto maravilhosos, aplausos (5)
auntietk
What a great story, and the image is great! You caught the statue at a good angle. Excellent presentation!
jocko500
wonderful hero . guess he was not in trouble. may got chew out but then a salute for well done. chew out for not doing what he was told to do. I like this type of memory of people. what they was really remember about
sandra46
STUNNING CAPTURE
flavia49
fantastic capture and story!
Osper
Great story and shot!
bobrgallegos
Outstanding photo and story!!
adrie
This is a beautiful statue, great capture and story my friend.
Dreamingbee
great shot and informations !
neiwil
This has to be one of the coolest Military Statues ever! as you say usually on horseback and very 'proper'...we need more like this! Well spotted and captured and thanks for taking time to find out the info for us.....great share, thank you....
emmecielle
Fantastic statue! great shot and very interesting informations! :)
danapommet
Beautiful capture and super narrative. It is so nice to learn something new here at RR while enjoying wonderful photography. Dana
clbsmiley
Wow! What a statue!! Thanks for the info too!!