Augusto César Cardoso de Carvalho

Augusto César Cardoso de Carvalho (31 March 1836 – 3 February 1905) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a general of the Portuguese Army. He was the 54th governor of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) from 1880 to 1881,^[1][2] the 102nd governor-general of the Portuguese State of India from 1886 to 1889^[3][4] and the governor of Cape Verde in 1890.^[5][6]

He completed his preparatory course at the Polytechnic School in 1852, followed by the Naval School in 1856. He went onto a commission in Angola and embarked on a brig Vila Flor and the corvette Goa, followed by another committee on the brig D. João de Castro to Portuguese India.

In 1880 he was promoted a frigate captain and was nominated governor of Timor, during his tenure, the Timorese Kingdom of Cowa fell.^[7] Later, he became governor of Portuguese India from 1886 to 1889 where he opened the harbour of Mormugao and extended the railway line up to the then-border with British India,^[8] later he was promoted counter-admiral and became governor of Cape Verde in 1890.

In 1892, he was nominated a commander at the Naval School and in 1896 commander of the Army Marine Corps. He was lastly promoted to a vice-admiral in 1901, he died on February 3, 1905 in Lisbon.

See also

• List of colonial governors of Cape Verde
• List of governors of Portuguese Timor
• List of governors of Portuguese India
• History of Cape Verde

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