Ribeiro De Meneses, Filipe
(2017)
Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front:
the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the
British High Command (part I).
First World War Studies, 8 (2-3).
pp. 173-187.
ISSN 1947-5020
Abstract
The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps [C.E.P.] was the centrepiece of
Portugal’s intervention in the First World War. It was despatched to
France in order to secure international plaudits for Portugal and its
young republican regime, in place since October 1910. This political
objective required the C.E.P. to be as independent a force as possible.
Unfortunately, the C.E.P. failed to impress its senior partner, the British
Army, whose High Command soon lost faith in it, applying pressure to
the British Government either to remove the C.E.P. altogether or to limit,
as far as possible, the Portuguese presence in the trenches. Despite
this, in November of 1917 a ‘Portuguese Sector’ was constituted in
Flanders, with the two Portuguese divisions fighting side by side.
This article investigates the nature of the misgivings between the
two armies and considers why, in such a charged atmosphere, the
British High Command was forced to give way.
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