Euclides da Cunha

Euclides da Cunha was born on 20 January 1866 in Cantagalo, in the province of Rio. A pupil at the military school of Praia Vermelha, he was expelled for a gesture of protest before the Minister of War of the Empire, and then became a civil engineer. In 1897, he covered the Bahia campaign for O Estado de S. Paulo. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1903, he took part in an expedition on the Purus in 1904. He was killed in Rio on 15 August 1909 by his wife's lover, at whose house he had come to kill him.

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• EpicRebellion in the BacklandsOs sertõesEuclides da Cunha · 1902LiteraturePublic domain