Alcácer-Quibir changes everything
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A derrota de Alcacerquibir, e o dominio hespanhol que se lhe seguio, veio modificar a vida de D. Antonio de Mariz.
The defeat at Alcácer-Quibir, and the Spanish dominion that followed it, came to change the life of Dom Antônio de Mariz.
Then history intrudes. The defeat at Alcácer-Quibir and the Spanish dominion that followed came to change Dom Antônio de Mariz's life.
One sentence turns a private biography into a national tragedy: Alcácer-Quibir (1578) killed King Sebastião and, two years on, delivered Portugal to Spain's Filipe II. For a man whose entire self is his oath to the Portuguese Crown, the Crown itself has just changed heads — and the chapter's real drama begins.
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