Maria Jose Leite a writer from Portugal has different view when she speaks about Dom João’s flight from Portugal to Brazil

Maria Jose Leite a writer  from Portugal has different view when she speaks about Dom João’s flight from Portugal to Brazil and she shares it with us

Sonia thanks for sharing this with me

Sonia eu também agradeço que se interesse pela história deste país que tanto deu ao Mundo, muita porta se abriu entre os povos, muito, muito se avançou, milhares e milhares de pessoas do meu povo morreram por esse mundo  fora, a fazer bem, e se houve alguns que mal fizeram, sempre assim foi, hoje  assim é , se assim não fosse teríamos um mundo, sem guerra, sem fome, sem as
 existentes  desigualdades abismais no planeta onde uns morrem de fome e  outros possuem ilhas, iates, aviões.Milhões de portugueses ao longo de séculos deram  a vida melhorando os locais pelo locais por onde passaram, trocas comerciais do oriente ao ocidente, floras que eram transportadas de uns continentes para  outros, botânicos da época faziam estudo dos terrenos para  incentivar
 novas plantações. Sabia que nna carreira da Índia para a manter activa eram recrutados meninos de 10 anos por falta de homens ? as mães  choravam  mas ao mesmo tempo abençoavam os filhos por rem em missão tão nobre, muito se fala do menos bom e pouco se fala do muito e grandioso de bem e bom que foi feito e muitas vezes denegrido por alguns povos.

Only there are some things that are not so true, the carriages were not there only to transport the clothes or some other such foolish items of the Royal family. This was done mainly to save our Portuguese wealth which could be found in palaces, our heritage in paintings, jewels, sacre art., all of extremely great value. The King was an intelligent King. Throughout the centuries the great patrimony of riches from Portugal was stolen.

The journey to Brazil, after all it was Portuguese land and because all the European countries were dominated or conquered by Napoleon, Portugal wasn’t, thanks to this intelligent option, making Rio de Janeiro the Capital of Portugal during the war.

The royal family going to Brazil SAVED our independence. Carrying everything, at least all that they could take to Brazil was lucky for us, because all the riches that remained in Portugal were stolen by the French soldiers. If you go to Louvre you can see the best of the Portuguese riches stolen during the Napoleon’s forced entry. This is so sad really, sometimes some others speak ill of my people, although they profited from the Discovery of the Routes, actually other Europeans profited much more from the Discoveries, much more than we ourselves. History shows how true this is.

We were made to face the forced entry of NAPOLEON THE 1^st TIME, AND SECOND TIME alone, our people faced with so much courage Napoleon the first two times. At the third time England needed to defeat Napoleon and proposed we join forces to win over him definitively. The Portuguese king accepted. The English army came here and joined the Portuguese army to win over Napoleon. ONLY ON 3RD INVASION DID England come to help, because England alone could face Napoleon’s  army.

This was bad for us too, because Portuguese noble families gave the best Portuguese houses to receive the English generals and other English men from the Army after having defeated Napoleon. But Portuguese people were exploited by English, some important Portuguese men were killed by English and my people needed to revolt to send the English people out of here, asking the king to come back to Lisbon

All this was so very good for BRAZIL, BECAUSE the evolution was so great, because of the Royal family there were many important buildings, monuments, palaces were built, and it was D. Pedro IV OF Portugal and First Of Brazil who gave independence to Brazil and he was the First Emperor of Independent BRAZIL

These were bad times for us, and the Portuguese people confronted everything with so much courage as is the feature of my people since times immemorial.

The royal family was so much more intelligent to have gone to Brazil, it was a so much good, because it saved the Portuguese nation’s freedom, the only mistake was staying there for there for decades, this  was so bad for this country and so much good for Brazil, in this case, we never judge the King badly because for Brazil it was winning and we are proud of this.

Has any colonised country had such a good independence like BRAZIL? Take the case of the American continent; has any country had such good independence like Brazil? So much good really and we are proud of this. Pity is that the truth is hidden so many times...

 I think it’s an inferiority complex...probably because Portugal was a free country much earlier, with a great history than all of them. I don’t know..