I'm looking for the way to enable Portugal retain a sizable portion of Brazil when the rest of the country goes independent. Also, I'd like to now which of the regions that would most likely stay with Portugal in this kind of scenario.....
I'm looking for the way to enable Portugal retain a sizable portion of Brazil when the rest of the country goes independent. Also, I'd like to now which of the regions that would most likely stay with Portugal in this kind of scenario.....
It can be said that these provinces were rather conquered by the Brazilian forces rather than expelled the Portuguese by their own. There was a "nativist" movement there, but was much weaker than in Bahia or Pernambuco, for example. I'm just not sure about the region that is nowadays the state of Piaui. The loyalties there were very divided, and their independence was conquered after much internal fight. Depending on the conditions they could follow any of both paths.
By "Nativist", you mean their own nationalists, instead of pro-Brazil nationalists ?
Also, what do you think the area of present day state of Tocantins will end up with ? All wikipedia says is that this area was part of Goyaz and was quite isolated from the southern part of Goyaz, the metropolitan of the said state. It strikes that, had Portuguese retained Para and Maranhao they would have better access to Tocantins than the Brazilians.