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== History== |
== History== |
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[[File:Forte de sao filipe do monte brasil.jpg|235px|left|thumb|A 1595 map of the fortress of Monte Brasil]] |
[[File:Forte de sao filipe do monte brasil.jpg|235px|left|thumb|A 1595 map of the fortress of Monte Brasil]] |
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Bartolomeu Ferraz first presented his recommendations to John III of Portugal in 1543 for the fortification of the Azores, then an important waypoint in trans-Atlantic commerce between the Indies and America.<ref name="SIPA">{{cite web|url=http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=8105 |editor=SIPA |publisher=SIPA – Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico |title=Igreja de São João Baptista do Castelo, Fortaleza e Muralhas |location=Lisbon, Portugal |language=Portuguese |year=2015 |accessdate=21 August 2015 |first=Sofia |last=Dias}}</ref> On 5 March 1567, in his proposal to the Crown, Engineer Tommaso Benedetto elaborated a plan to protect the island's coastal defence, that included the construction of a fort on Monte Brasil.<ref name=SIPA/> Shortly following this proposal, the Portuguese Crown began the construction of the Fort of Dois Paus, in order to protect the port of ''Dois Paus-Portinho Novo''.<ref name=SIPA/> |
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During the dynastic crisis (in 1580), the Azores supported the Portuguese cause of [[António, Prior of Crato]] and his claim to the throne, resulting in a insular rebellion that lasted for three years.<ref name=SIPA/> The anti-Phillipine resistance was determined to reinforce the coastal fortifications.<ref name=SIPA/> On 13 October 1581, a letter from Frair Simão de Barros was sent to Queen Elizabeth for military assistance.<ref name=SIPA/> In order to prepare the resistance on the island, fortifications were constructed on the eastern coast of [[Monte Brasil]]: the Fort of Santo António and Fort of São Benedito, that included a long wall and trench, and to the west the establishment of the Fort of Zimbreiro.<ref name=SIPA/> |
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In the context of the installation of the [[Captaincy-General of the Azores]], the status of the fortifications were reported as: |
In the context of the installation of the [[Captaincy-General of the Azores]], the status of the fortifications were reported as: |
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:''...In the stated redoubt of Benedict the Moor, it has eight canon emplacements and four peices of iron, three esfuguenadas, and requires another four with its equipment.''<ref>João António Júdice (1981), p.416</ref> |
:''...In the stated redoubt of Benedict the Moor, it has eight canon emplacements and four peices of iron, three esfuguenadas, and requires another four with its equipment.''<ref>João António Júdice (1981), p.416</ref> |
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It currently includes several abandoned and derelict buildings, and is found in a state of ruin. |
The redoubt was part of an array of coastal defences on the eastern coast of Monte Brasil, oriented toward the [[Bay of Angra]], that included the [[Redoubt of Dois Paus]], Redoubt of São Francisco, the Redoubt of Santo Inácio and the Fort of Santo António.<ref name=SIPA/> It currently includes several abandoned and derelict buildings, and is found in a state of ruin. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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* {{citation |first=João António |last=Júdice |contribution=Revistas feitas no Castello de S. João Baptista, Forte de S. Sebastião e de todos os mais fortes que tem esta Ilha Terceira |location=Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Papéis do Ministério do Reino, Maço 611) |title=Arquivo dos Açores |volume=V (facsimile 1883) |location=Ponta Delgada (Azores): Universidade dos Açores |year=1981 |pages=407–418}} |
* {{citation |first=João António |last=Júdice |contribution=Revistas feitas no Castello de S. João Baptista, Forte de S. Sebastião e de todos os mais fortes que tem esta Ilha Terceira |location=Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Papéis do Ministério do Reino, Maço 611) |title=Arquivo dos Açores |volume=V (facsimile 1883) |location=Ponta Delgada (Azores): Universidade dos Açores |year=1981 |pages=407–418}} |
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* {{citation |last=Mota |last=Valdemar |contribution=Fortificação da Ilha Terceira |title=Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, | volume=LI-LII |year=1994 |language=Portuguese}} |
* {{citation |last=Mota |last=Valdemar |contribution=Fortificação da Ilha Terceira |title=Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, | volume=LI-LII |year=1994 |language=Portuguese}} |
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Revision as of 22:53, 30 August 2015
Template:Geobox The Redoubt of Três Paus (Template:Lang-pt) is a fortification situated on the peninsula of Monte Brasil, in the civil parish of Sé, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, in the Porutguese archipelago of the Azores. Part of the fortified defenses of the Fortress of São João Baptista, it was also known as the Fort/Redoubt of Benedict the Moor (Template:Lang-pt).
History
Bartolomeu Ferraz first presented his recommendations to John III of Portugal in 1543 for the fortification of the Azores, then an important waypoint in trans-Atlantic commerce between the Indies and America.[1] On 5 March 1567, in his proposal to the Crown, Engineer Tommaso Benedetto elaborated a plan to protect the island's coastal defence, that included the construction of a fort on Monte Brasil.[1] Shortly following this proposal, the Portuguese Crown began the construction of the Fort of Dois Paus, in order to protect the port of Dois Paus-Portinho Novo.[1]
During the dynastic crisis (in 1580), the Azores supported the Portuguese cause of António, Prior of Crato and his claim to the throne, resulting in a insular rebellion that lasted for three years.[1] The anti-Phillipine resistance was determined to reinforce the coastal fortifications.[1] On 13 October 1581, a letter from Frair Simão de Barros was sent to Queen Elizabeth for military assistance.[1] In order to prepare the resistance on the island, fortifications were constructed on the eastern coast of Monte Brasil: the Fort of Santo António and Fort of São Benedito, that included a long wall and trench, and to the west the establishment of the Fort of Zimbreiro.[1]
In the context of the installation of the Captaincy-General of the Azores, the status of the fortifications were reported as:
- ...In the stated redoubt of Benedict the Moor, it has eight canon emplacements and four peices of iron, three esfuguenadas, and requires another four with its equipment.[2]
The redoubt was part of an array of coastal defences on the eastern coast of Monte Brasil, oriented toward the Bay of Angra, that included the Redoubt of Dois Paus, Redoubt of São Francisco, the Redoubt of Santo Inácio and the Fort of Santo António.[1] It currently includes several abandoned and derelict buildings, and is found in a state of ruin.
References
- Notes
- Sources
- Júdice, João António (1981), "Revistas feitas no Castello de S. João Baptista, Forte de S. Sebastião e de todos os mais fortes que tem esta Ilha Terceira", Arquivo dos Açores, vol. V (facsimile 1883), Ponta Delgada (Azores): Universidade dos Açores, pp. 407–418
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Valdemar (1994), "Fortificação da Ilha Terceira", Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira (in Portuguese), vol. LI–LII
- Vieira, Alberto (1987), "Da poliorcética à fortificação nos Açores: introdução ao estudo do sistema defensivo nos Açores nos séculos XVI-XIX", Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira (in Portuguese), vol. XLV, Tomo II
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