Already the Zulus, one of the feared etnias more of the black continent, atribuam the truculncia and the abilities of its capoeiristas warriors as its greater trunfo. As first great action in its reign, Chaca, he substituted the old long weapons (long spears) for swords, thus, it compelled the enemies to carry through the combat body-the-body. Inserted in Pampas gauchos in the most different professions, amongst them: tropeiro, agriculturist, laador, tamer, guasqueiro, corridor of careers, charqueador and cangueiro, the Africans and its descendants had quickly modified the precarious economic structure river-grandense, of agriculture to the public security. Thanks to the blacks and to the knowledge gotten in the casting sector, being able by means of this, to produce tools (spears, knives, swords, machetes, horseshoes) for the local economy, the estancieiros left to import utensils, before come of other regions of the empire. To read more click here: altavista. They were manufactured, artisan thus the first weapons of black lanceiros farroupilhas.
Enlisted in way to the campeiros blacks and tamers of the current south region it been gaucho, the lanceiros when in its foundation they were organized in two divisions: ' ' one of cavalry, and to another one of infantry, created respectively in 12 of September of 1836 and 31 of August of 1838' ' (Magazine Discovering History, 2008, p.27). Beyond the long spears, the division also made use of the boleadeiras as armament, over all, to capture the imperialistas military who for happiness were distant of its you would mount. The infantry, in the combat body-the-body used one poncho rolled up to the left arm, this brightened up the damages provoked for an eventual attack of dagger or machete. Subordinated to some former-officers deserters of the Brazilian imperial militarism, between them, the idealizers of the black lanceiros, Colonel Joaquin Peter Soares and Teixeira Nunes, the grouping formed for the parcel more discriminated of the population gaucho, occupied important prominence in the nomenclature of the Farroupilha Revolution.
Enlisted in way to the campeiros blacks and tamers of the current south region it been gaucho, the lanceiros when in its foundation they were organized in two divisions: ' ' one of cavalry, and to another one of infantry, created respectively in 12 of September of 1836 and 31 of August of 1838' ' (Magazine Discovering History, 2008, p.27). Beyond the long spears, the division also made use of the boleadeiras as armament, over all, to capture the imperialistas military who for happiness were distant of its you would mount. The infantry, in the combat body-the-body used one poncho rolled up to the left arm, this brightened up the damages provoked for an eventual attack of dagger or machete. Subordinated to some former-officers deserters of the Brazilian imperial militarism, between them, the idealizers of the black lanceiros, Colonel Joaquin Peter Soares and Teixeira Nunes, the grouping formed for the parcel more discriminated of the population gaucho, occupied important prominence in the nomenclature of the Farroupilha Revolution.