Duque de Caxias
Duque de Caxias is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro of southeastern Brazil. About 900,000 people live there. It has an area of 464,573 km (288,672 mi).
Duque De Caxias Media
Coat of arms of Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, baron, count, marquess and duke of Caxias (the same Portuguese arms of the Silva, Coutinho, Lima, Brandão, Soromenho and Ferreira families). Also used by his father, the baron of Barra Grande, his uncles, the viscount of Majé and the baron of Suruí, and his brother, the viscount and count of Tocantins.
María Ángela Furriol, the Hispanic American who may have been Caxias's fiancée
Ana Luísa de Loreto, wife of Caxias, as a child (bottom right) along with her siblings
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, then-Baron of Caxias, around age 38, c. 1841
Sabará (pictured) was one of the towns Caxias marched into during the 1842 Liberal rebellion in Minas Gerais province
The then-Count of Caxias, around age 43, c. 1846
The steamship Dom Afonso, aboard which Caxias scouted the port area of Buenos Aires for a later canceled attack
Caxias around age 54, c. 1857
Caxias around age 58, c. 1861
Pedro II (raising his hat) follows behind his two aides-de-camp, one of them Caxias (center). This military parade most probably occurred during the siege of Uruguaiana at the beginning of the Paraguayan War.
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