José Joaquim de Sousa

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Portuguese cannon at the port of Dili

The Portuguese captain José Joaquim de Sousa was governor of Timor from 1800 to 1803 .

Sousa equipped the fortress in the colonial capital Dili , which his predecessor João Baptista Verquaim (1794–1800) had built with cannons. Sousa also restructured the colonial troops.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoffrey C. Gunn: Historical Dictionary of East Timor , p. 182
  2. ↑ Hans Hägerdal: governor of Portuguese Timor to 1832 ; Sources: Artur Teodoro de Matos: Timor Portugues, 1515–1769 (Lisboa 1974), Affonso de Castro: As possessões portuguezas na Oceania (1867) and Luna de Oliveira: Timor na historia de Portugal (1940s)
  3. ↑ Monika Schlicher, Appendix II; Source: Gonçalo Pimenta de Castro: Timor , pp. 44–162 and Marques, AH de Oliveira: História de Portugal, Volume III, Lisbon, Palas Editores, 1984, pp. 627/628.
  4. ↑ Colonial Voyage: Chronicle of the Portuguese expansion on Timor ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.colonialvoyage.com

See also

predecessor Office successor
João Baptista Verquaim Governor of Portuguese Timor
1800–1803 		João Vicente Soares da Veiga
personal data
SURNAME Sousa, José Joaquim de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century