Hence the lines on the current Portuguese national anthem (A Portuguesa), which originally went, I believe:
"Contra os Bretões marchar, marchar" (now goes "Contra os canhões marchar, marchar"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portuguesa ----- Original Message ---- > From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> > Sent: Mon, 14 February, 2011 11:00:41 AM > Subject: [Goanet] Scramble for Africa, Berlin Conference, Pink Map, British >Ultimatum, and the demise of the Portuguese monarchy... could Goa's history >have >been different? > > While browsing, I came across The Pink Map [3] -- (Portuguese: Mapa > cor-de-rosa), primarily "a document representing Portugal's claim of > sovereignty over the land between Angola and Mozambique, which today > is currently Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The Pink Map collided with > Sir Cecil Rhodes' "Cape to Cairo Red Line". The dispute with the > United Kingdom over these territories led to the 1890 British > Ultimatum [4], to which Portugal gave in, causing serious damage to > the image of the Portuguese monarchy, and the subsequent rise of the > Republican political movement." --FN
