Ceará and Maranhão that engaged the Portuguese forces of Major John FidiéJosédaCunha, charged with keeping the north of the former Portuguese colony loyal
January 24: João Manuel Mena Barreto, brigadier February 17: José Antônio Correia da Câmara, Marshal and noble August 20 – JoãoJosédaCunhaFidié, a Portuguese
in 1792 by Costa e Silva himself. In Salvador, engineer Cosme Damião daCunhaFidié designed in 1813 the city's Comércio Square, a building strongly inspired