QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE COLONIES WHO BECAME SOLDIERS IN RIO GRANDE CAPTAINCY (XVII, XVIII AND XIX CENTURIES)

Abstract

By means of a quantitative analysis of militaries sources, more specifically the soldier registrations and retirement records in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and in the first years in nineteenth century, this text examined the men’s profile who acted in military corporations of Rio Grande Captaincy colonial administration. This study ask about the source settlers who joined in military service. Combined with the quantitative analysis it was realized too a qualitative examination of the men who worked in Rio Grande Captaincy military administration and who lived specifically in backwoods of this place. For this it was discussed the Manoel Guedes profile and trajectory. He was a brown man, he lived at backwoods and he became soldier on August 27th, 1797. Finally, it supported by datas collected in soldier registrations and retirement records it possible assure the military service in colonial context used to make it possible the entry of different kind of men like Indian, black and white men. However the entry these settlers in military service wasn’t homogeneous and had happend in line with social historic scenary in Rio Grande Captaincy.