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by B1FF_PSUVM 1513 days ago
Make that hugely amusing. The absolutist king, Miguel, had the common people's support. The liberals were basically a bourgeois minority.

It took a foreign invasion - Pedro travelled around in English ships, and his troops had a mercenary backbone - to "liberate" Portugal.

The more it changes, the more it's the same.