 Acta 2024
XLIX International Congress of Military History 1 - 6 September 2024, Lisbon - Portugal
© 2025 Portuguese Commission of Military History All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmited in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permision of the publisher. Published by:
Portuguese Commission of Military History
Av. Ilha da Madeira, n.º 1, Room 332
1400-204 Lisboa - Portugal
Coordinator and editor: Jorge Silva Rocha, PhD
ISBN: 978-989-8593-31-3 DOI for this volume: https://doi.org/10.56092/GDSK9438
Volume I Contents
OPENING SESSIONHermínio Maio
Opening remarks by the Military University Institute Commander
João Vieira Borges
Speech by the President of the Portuguese Commission of Military History
Massimo de Leonardis
Inaugural speech by the President of the International Commission of Military History
Nuno Melo
Speech by the Minister of National Defence
KEYNOTE SPEECHAntónio José Telo
The Military and the Regime Change in Portugal
SESSION A1 — Transitions in the18th centuryClaudia Reichl-Ham
Sine Nobis, De No bis (Without Us [They Decided] About Us) The Kuruc Movement Under Francis II Rákóczi and its Fight Against the Habsburgs for the 'Liberation' of Hungary
Sandrine Picaud-Monnerat
Une Victoire Lourde à Porter: L'administration Militaire de Berg-Op-Zoom Par les Français en 1747 et 1748
Miguel Corrêa Monteiro
The Guarani War (1753-1756) and the Role Played by the Combined Portuguese and Spanish Forces
Tomasz Ciesielski
Russian Armed Intervention in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Years 1733-1736
SESSIO N A2 — National transitions - SwitzerlandMarco Ciampini
The New Model Army in the English Revolution. The Importance and Role of Military Structures in the Social and Political Developments of New England
Jean-Marc Hochstrasser
Importance des Événements Politiques Dans Les Pays où se Trouvaient des Mercenaires Suisses sur ces Derniers et Inversement
Derck. Ch. Engelberts
Révolution(s) Helvétique(s) et Forces Armées Françaises en 1798: une Situation Atypique
Dominique Andrey
Influences du Système de Milice Sur la Création de la Suisse Moderne
SESSION A3 — War and Revolutions in the 19th Century Fred L. Borch
The U.S. Army & Reconstruction: Changing the “Established Power" in the Southern States (1865-1877)
Carmen-Sorina Rijnoveanu
The Role of Military in the Political Transition from an Indigenous Ruler to A Foreign Prince. The Coup of February 11, 1866, in the Romanian Principalities
José Subtil & Daniel Estudante Protásio
Portugal's First Counter-Revolutionary Moment: Vilafrancada Coup (1823). Major Hypothesis for Understanding What Happened
Rui Moura
Kingdom of Portugal, 1824 Abrilada. Comments to Help Understanding a Coup D'état
SESSION B1 — Transitions in Latin AmericaOreste Foppiani
The U.S. Military Intervention and Administration in Cuba and th e Philippines, 1898 –1905
Anselm Van Der Peet
The Castro Crisis. Dutch Gunboat Diplomacy and Regime Change in Venezuela 1908
SESSION C1 — Politic al Crises and Military InterventionsGianluca Pastori
Between High Politics and Public Order. The Italian Army and its Men in the Turn-of-The-Century Crisis, 1896 –1901
António Paulo Duarte
Coup D'état, Revolution, Civil War: Towards a Theory of Intermittent Civil War in the First Portuguese Republic
Jesse Pyles
Duplicity and Ambivalence: British Officials and Officers Reactions to First Republic Coups
Georg Frerks
Military, Socio-Economic and Political Determinants and Consequences of Military Coups: an Exploratory Analysis
SESSION D1 — PhD Candidates Workshop 1Szymon Głąb
The Fall of the Exército da India. Acclimatisation and Resentment in The Writings of Germano Correia
Lorenzo Bernardini
Looking Southward. Italy and Mediterranean Security (1980-88)
Benjamin Pfannes
Strategic Partnerships in the Cold War: The German-French Brigade and the Eurocorps as First Steps Towards a European Security Structure
Dermot Rooney
Veritable 1945: Reclaiming Tactical Historical Analysis
SESSION D2 — New States and its Armed ForcesJuho Kotakallio
“I Shall Crown You King" The Military and Political Transaction in Finland 1918 –1919
Petteri Jouko
Old Foes, New Friends? The Finnish Defence Review Committee and Military Political Assessments After the Second World
Lasse Laaksonen
The Drama of Vyborg 1944
Pasi Tuunainen
President P. E. Svinhufvud and the Defence Forces during the 1932 Abortive Mäntsälä Coup Attempt in Finland
SESSION D3 — Post-war Transitions in AsiaOmi Hatashin
Divided Military in Japan's “August Revolution", 1945
Fu Shuanglong & Xue Yuan
Urban Military Control Before and After the Founding of the People's Republic of China
Yasuaki Chijiwa
The Changes of Government and National Security Policy in Postwar Japanese History
Sung-hun Cho
Relationship Between the Chang Myon Regime of the Second Republic of Korea and the Military
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Acta 2024
XLIX International Congress of Military History 1 - 6 September 2024, Lisbon - Portugal
© 2025 Portuguese Commission of Military History All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmited in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permision of the publisher. Published by:
Portuguese Commission of Military History
Av. Ilha da Madeira, n.º 1, Room 332
1400-204 Lisboa - Portugal
Coordinator and editor: Jorge Silva Rocha, PhD
ISBN: 978-989-8593-31-3 DOI for this volume: https://doi.org/10.56092/VXIU5336
Volume II
Contents
SESSION E1 — Armed Forces and Political Transformations
José Paulo Berger
Portuguese Military Engineers and Politics
Thean Potgieter
South Africa, Portugal and the Politics of Naval Acquisitions D uring the Nineteen Seventies
SESSION E2 — Political Crisis and Military Interventions - The BalkansDaniela Șișcanu
Bessarabia's Transition from Being a Part of Empire to National Independence. The Role of the Romanian Army in the Process of the Unification of Bessarabia with Romania, 1918
Ion Rîşnoveanu
The Role of The Military in Repatriation of the Future King Carol II. 6 June 1930
SESSION E3 — Democratic TransitionsProkop Tomek
Submission of the Communist Army to the New Democratic Regime in Czechoslovakia
Petr Janoušek
Eyes on the West! The Transformation in the Czechoslovak Military's Foreign Orientation in 1989-1992
M. Christian Ortner
The Employment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Suppression of Uprising in the Civil and Military Fields in 1918
SESSION F1 — War and Regime ChangeWinfried Heinemann
Two Coups: 20 July 1944 in Germany and 25 April 1974 in Portugal
Flavio Carbone
The Fall of Fascism: When the Carabinieri Arrested the Duce on 25 July 1943/5 September 2024
Benny Michelsohn
Two Jewish Officers Who Contributed to the Return of the French 3rd Republic, June–August 1944
SESSION F2 — Cold War CrisisDavide Borsani
The Path to Rehabilitation, The Italian Navy's Role in the Aftermath of World War II
Matej Medvecký & Miloslav Čaplovič
The Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 – A Slovak Perspective
Paolo Formiconi
Rejecting the Wrong Cause. Fascist Plots and Democratic Loyalty in the Italian Military Institutions. 1961-1981
SESSION F3 — Humanitary InterventionsEnrico Magnani
The UN Mission in Namibia, the Success of the Transition
Allon Klebanoff
Боже, Царя храни! (God Save the Tsar!)
SESSION G1 — PhD Candidates Workshop 2Aby Tine
Le Rôle des Militaires dans les Transitions Politiques au Burkina Faso: Cas de Tomas Sankara
Daniel Mata Roque
Lieutenant Suarez: a Female War Veteran in the Party Politics of Redemocratization in Brazil (1945-1947)
SESSION G2 — Post-War Military TransitionsDavid Alaric Searle
Defeated but Still a Factor? The Role of German Armed Forces in the Transition from War to Peace, 1919 -1923
Martin Rink
West Germany's Army Facing Structural Reforms in an Era of Global Upheaval, 1987 -1994
Christiaan van der Spek
The absence of Coups d'Etat. The Case of the Netherlands
SESSION G3 — Portuguese Transition to DemocracyPedro de Avillez
Portuguese April 25th, 1974, Military Coup
Joana de Matos Tornada
16th March 1974. A Coup that Wasn't a Coup on the Eve of the Portuguese Democratic Revolution According to its Investigation Process
João José Brandão Ferreira
A Historical Perspective on Military Interventions in Portugal
SESSION H1 — Portuguese Decolonization and Military CrisisPedro Aires Oliveira
Scapegoats of an aborted decolonization? The Portuguese military in East Timor in 1974 -75
SESSION H2 — New Times, New Visions of the MilitaryDavid García Hernán
The Enlightened Navy and the Origins of Spanish Liberalism
Alberto Rico Sánchez
The First International Mission of The Civil Guard: Portugal, 1847
Israel Blajberg
Findings on Genealogy of Fonseca Family and the Role of Marshal Deodoro in the Fall of Monarchy in Brazil, 1889
SESSION I 1 — Military Interventions and DemocratizationAbel Esterhuyse
The Role of the Military in Political Transitions: The Ending of the Cold War and South African Democratisation
SESSION I2 — Military Interventions and New BeginingsJosé Romero
General Arsenio Martínez de Campos and the Pronunciamiento in Sagunto (29 De Diciembre de 1874)
Daniel Ayiotis
The Role of the National Army in the Political Transition of Ireland, 1922 -19 24
Virginie Wanyaka Bonguen O.
L'Afrique et les coups de bottes postindépendants : Revisitation, enjeux, et analyse d'un phénomène politico-militaire
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