Dear Jorge,
Thank you for the details you have supplied from Pelissier's version. Is there any Portuguese official record? After all, after giving him all honours they did, they should have cared to record the death and honour him posthumously as a hero without waiting till 1959-60 to erect a statue in Goa to taunt the freedom fighters! I hope you can help us fix his death as just once! [Statutum est hominibus semel mori] ----------------------------------------- Jorge de Abreu Noronha wrote: Dear Dr. Teotonio, Thank you for the above information. I have now read Jose Capela's book Donas, Senhoras e Escravos" which indeed says on page 155 that Manuel Antonio de Sousa (MAS), honorary colonel of the (Portuguese) overseas army and "comendador" of the Order of Aviz, was killed while attacking Missongue in DEcember 1891. So, while there is no doubt that he was born in Mapusa (Bardez, Goa) in 1835, Capela places his death in December 1891 while Clement Vaz tells us that he "met bravely, like a true hero, his death on the battle ground in 1904" (in "Profiles of Eminent Goans Past and Present" [New Dlhi, 1997] - page 105). Now, there is yet another date of his death (January 20, 1892) and, apparently, not "like a true hero". I have a two-volume book titled "História de Moçambique" by René Pélissier (Portuguese translation of the original French - Editorial Estampa, Lisboa, 1994 ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
