BRAZIL AND A HISTORICAL ANAMOLY

I was researching Brazil and the Portuguese Hereditary Captain system. I stumbled upon this:

In 1808, the Portuguese court, fleeing from Napoleon's troops who had invaded Portugal, established themselves in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which thus became the seat of government of Portugal and the entire Portuguese Empire, even though being located outside of Europe.

There are plenty of instances where a nation flees its primate city: the Russians do it all the time when you invade from the west. But I think this is the first instance I've read where a European Court moved bodily to the new world (not, for example, England, where most monarchists flee).

 

I'm taking today to shoe horn all my flash fiction (written and unwritten) into some sort of timeline and yes, I am thinking of something cheesy along the lines of the "Captains of Mars".

I love pulp.