Armando de Moraes Ancora | |
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Commander of the 1st Army | |
In office 2 August 1963 – 1 April 1964 | |
Preceded by | Osvino Ferreira Alves |
Succeeded by | Octacílio Terra Ururahy |
Commander of the 1st Military Region | |
In office 8 August 1959 – 4 January 1960 | |
Preceded by | Nestor Souto de Oliveira |
Succeeded by | Joaquim Justino Alves Bastos |
Personal details | |
Born | Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 5 August 1901
Died | 26 September 1964 Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara, Brazil | (aged 63)
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Battles/wars | World War II |
Armando de Moraes Ancora (5 August 1901 – 26 September 1964) was Brazilian military army general, who fought in World War II.[1]
Ancora had served as commander of the 1st Military Region from 1959 to 1960.[2] Later, he had served as commander of the 1st Army (now the Eastern Military Command), during the 1964 coup d'état, from 1963 to 1964.[1][3]
After finding out about the split in the army, Ancora chose to avoid armed conflicts between the loyalists (favorable to the coup) and the counter-revolutionary troops (supporters of president João Goulart, as the coup supporters called it a "revolution") who wanted to stop them.[1][4]
In a meeting in Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Armando Ancora, who had just assumed office as interim Minister of War, replacing general Jair Dantas Ribeiro, declared the end of the resistance of the forces who gave protection to the government.[1][4]
Besides commanding the 1st Army, general Ancora was head of the Federal District Police during the Rua Toneledo shooting in August 1954, which led to his resignation, before the suicide of Getúlio Vargas, being one of the few military personnel loyal to Vargas, along with general Manuel César de Góis Monteiro.[1]