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Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues (1899 - 1979) was a naval officer, colonist and professor. He was born in 1899 in Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Portugal. He attended a secondary school in Bragança and attended the University of Coimbra. He entered the Naval School and concluded the marine course in 1921. As a junior officer, he embarked in the ''República'' on board which he was accompanied by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral through the South Atlantic and in the ''Lis'', he was the aide-de-camp of the Governor-General of Portuguese India and on board the transport ''Pêro de Alenquer''. He gave assistance to the victims of the 1926 Faial earthquake. He extensively travelled to the Portuguese colonies of the Far East and Africa. In 1936, he was part of the Hydrographic Mission of the Adjacent Islands. He was put in charge in the survey of the seas of the Azores and the Madeira islands. In 1941, he assumed the command of the torpedo-boat destroyer ''Lima'', which he kept until 1945. Under his command, the ''Lima'' participated in various operations of rescues of torpedo ships in the seas of the Azores during World War II. He later attended Escola Superior Colonial. As a senior official, he became a colonial administrator, being the Governor or Portuguese Guinea between 1946 and 1949. In 1950, he became governor general of Salazar as Ministry of the Colonies (partly in 1951, Ministry of Ultramar), having these implemented functions on the vast reform of the Portuguese colonial administration, he visited the Far East, Southeast Asia and Africa. Between 1961 and 1964, he was governor general of Portuguese Mozambique. He died in Lisbon in 1979. He is an author of ''Ancoradouros das Ilhas dos Açores'' (''Anchorage of the Azores Islands'') and ''No Governo da Guiné: Discursos e Afirmações'' (1949). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarmento Rodrigues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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