The Brazilian troops were composed of a battalion of about 4,000 men.

He couldn't afford to wait for the Brazilian troops to leave.

Do it on the cheap, use Brazilian troops and a handful of nukes, to not divert our own overstretched forces.

Urbieta defeated Brazilian troops and thus regained control of the fort.

It was evacuated near to the end of the Paraguayan War and soon after destroyed by Brazilian troops.

After the victory, the Brazilian troops came to rest in Villeta, the river Paraguay.

Brazilian troops were segregated until the fall of the Empire.

In the war against Rosas, 75% of the Brazilian troops were gaúchos.

In the 1850's and 1860's Brazilian troops helped keep the Colorados in power.

The war, however, brought some infrastructure and a brief period of economic boom, supplying sugar, foodstuffs and timber to the Brazilian troops.