%0 Book Section
%T Guardians of the Republic?: Portugal's GNR and the politicians during the 'new old republic', 1919-1922
publisher Palgrave
%D 2007
%U 978-0-230-59986-4
%U 978-1-349-54365-6
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114818
%X This chapter focuses on the political role played by the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) in Portuguese politics during the period 1919–22. The GNR was a gendarmerie force created in the aftermath of the republican revolution of October 1910 that put an end to the 75-year constitutional monarchy. It was the first truly national police force in Portuguese history and, after the Great War, became an independent revolutionary republican force.
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