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The foreign-affairs policies

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The foreign-affairs policies of the monarchy dealt with issues with the countries of the Southern Cone with whom Brazil had borders. Long after the

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Cisplatine War that resulted in independence for Uruguay,[100] Brazil won three international wars during the 58-year reign of Pedro II. These were the Platine War, the Uruguayan War and the devastating Paraguayan War, the largest war effort in Brazilian history.[101][102]

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Although there was no desire among the majority of Brazilians to change the country’s form of government,[103] on 15 November 1889,

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in disagreement with the majority of Army officers, as well as with rural and financial elites (for different reasons), the monarchy was overthrown by a military coup.[104] 15 November is now Republic Day, a national holiday.[105]

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