King Carlos I | Lisbon | Portugal
King Carlos I started his
reign in 1889, four years after the Berlin Conference. He arrived in
a moment when Portugal was fighting for the so called Rose-Coloured
Map, a document prepared in 1885 to represent Portugal's claim of
sovereignty over a land corridor connecting their colonies of Angola
and Mozambique during the "Scramble for Africa". The area
claimed included almost all of what is currently Zimbabwe and large
parts of modern Zambia and Malawi. Belgium didn't accepted the deal
special because of Congo Basin and the English made an Ultimatum to
Portugal. After dropping the sovereignty over the Rose-Coloured Map
he endorsed a second vague os Portuguese colonizers led by Mouzinho
de Albuquerque into the Pacification and Occupation
Campaigns - vast set of military operations, of very unequal scale,
conducted in the last decades of the 19th century and in the first
two decades of the 20th by the Portuguese armed forces in the African
colonies of Portugal. It was during these campaigns that the fighting
in Môngua, in Angola, and in Chaimite, in Mozambique, took place,
where Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque captured the Vátua
King Gungunhana.
