Execution of Gomes Freire de Andrade.

A military aristocrat who fought at the beginning of his career in the service of Catherine of Russia, he was general in the Portuguese army and one of the founders of freemasonry in Portugal. He was accused of leading a conspiracy against the monarchy of King João VI at a time when he was in Rio de Janeiro and Portugal was governed by a Regency under the British military rule of General William Beresford. Condemned, alongside eleven other officials, he was hung at the Fort of S. Julião da Barra in Oeiras on 17th October 1817. These executions resulted in an intensification of the protests against the Regency and British rule and helping trigger the outbreak of the Liberal Revolution of Porto (1820).