Uma Batalha simbólica: memória da retirada da Laguna no contexto de profissionalização do Exército Brasileiro: (1906-1930)

Abstract

The Brazilian Army was born with independence, inherited of their predecessor, the Portuguese Army, its forms of relation between its integrant ones and them with the Brazilian society. This form of relationship persisted during all the imperial period only modifying some thing during the war against Paraguay, when this army assumed national ratios and started to demand a bigger participation in the Brazilian politics. With the advent of the Republic, the military if had involved deeply in them intrigue of the power, becoming plus a politics club of what properly an Armed Force. The modern war, created the necessity to professionalize it exercises and its commanders, but it demanded, in first place, the removal of the military of the national politics life and the integral devotion to the military preparation. To arrive at this point, the Brazilian Army initiated, at the beginning of century XX, a process of identification of its integrant with some “heroes'' of the past, among them, the integrant of the actions carried through in the south of the old of the Mato Grosso do Sul State, weeds for occasion of the war against Paraguay, episode that was known as the withdrawal of the Lagoon. In this work it is looked to analyze three workmanships written in the decade of 1920 for military authors on the withdrawal of lagoon or on to the Army. Questions as the place of the authors in the game of being able, as well as the purposes with which the workmanships had been produced point an internal dispute; a symbolic battle.