Francisco da Costa Gomes
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Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE GOA was a Portuguese military officer and politician who was the president of Portugal from 1974 to 1976. Earlier on, he had been deployed to Angola as part of the Port
Gomes in 1975
Gomes in the 1940s
Portuguese Colonial War
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The Portuguese Colonial War, also known in Portugal as the Overseas War or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican Wars of Independ
Francisco da Costa Gomes
…Portuguese military officer and politician who was the president of Portugal from 1974 to 1976. Earlier on, he had been deployed to Angola as part of the Portuguese Colonial War. Gomes was born in Chaves, Portugal, on 30 June 1914. He was one of the eleven children of António José Gomes and Idalina Júlia Monteiro da Costa…
Portuguese convoy in Angola Soldiers patrolling the forest Trucks in northern Angola Troops boarding a frigate in Guinea-Bissau
The Battle of Marracuene in 1895
The Battle of Coolela in 1895
Leader of FNLA Holden Roberto in 1973