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PICTURE 2 - Map of
Brazil in 1751 with the
boundaries demarcated
by the Treaty of Madrid

Mapa do Brasil em
1751 com os limites
demarcados pelo
Tratado de Madrid…
Mapoteca do Itama-
raty. In O Exército na
História do Brasil:
Colônia, p. 221, de
CARVALHO, L.P.M.
(Org.) Rio de Janeiro:
Biblioteca do Exército;
Salvador: Odebre-
cht, 1998. Créditos
Iconográficos, p. 259.

1828 - the peace agreement that ended the War of Cisplatine - as “the first great triumph
of the Imperial diplomacy ...” (Viana, 1903, p. 10). Indeed, using Beaufre’s concept,
it appears that Brazil recently independent, did not have great freedom of action and
lacked substantial means within immediate reach, which made the maintenance of its
living borders a vital goal in its foreign policy. Moreover, Brazil potentially was a nation
strong defensively, able to mobilize itself when attacked. The major goal of demarcated
boundaries with neighboring republics, which were not always stable, hardly friendly and
sometimes hostile, had to be reached by the Empire of Brazil through successive actions,
in which, rather than employing a “direct threat and indirect pressure shared with limited
strength actions” (BEAUFRE, 1998, p. 33) should combine “political, diplomatic or
economic actions” (Ibid., p. 32). More importantly, the Brazil’s “successive actions”