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    Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (part I)


    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

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    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.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Portugal; Great Britain; Western Front; command; shipping;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
    Item ID: 12958
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2017.1393345
    Depositing User: Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses
    Date Deposited: 21 May 2020 10:55
    Journal or Publication Title: First World War Studies
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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