Portugal spent nearly 1.4 million cruzados to destroy Palmares

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Palmares did fall, eventually, in 1694, the result of campaigns launched by successive Portuguese governors of Pernambuco (Joao da Cunha Sotto-Mayor, Marques de Montebello, and Melo de Castro). The last expedition sent against it consisted of nearly 3,000 men and was in the field for several months. … The total cost of the adventure was estimated by Melo de Castro at somewhere near 1,400,000 cruzados. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 667

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