The South Monarchy

90 years after the North Monarchy it was proclaimed the South Monarchy.

«Soldiers!
You have in front of you the Blue and White Flag! Those were always the colours of Portugal, since king Afonso I, in Ourique, in the defense of our lands against the Moors until king Manuel II keeping against the african rebels our domains in Magul, Coolela, Cuamato, and many other battles that showed the portuguese arms.
«When in 1910 Portugal abandoned the Blue and White, Portugal abandoned its history! And the peoples that abandon their history become weak and die.
«Soldiers! The Army is, first of all, the highest symbol of the Nation and, because of that, it has to sustain and saved it in the hardest circunstances, helping it in the right hour against the internal or external dangers that threaten its existence.
«And abandon the history is an error that kills! Against that error the Army must hoist again his old Blue and White Flag.
«The Nation points you the ways of Value, Loyalty and Bravery, where the portuguese of the past conquered the greatness and glory that today still dignifies the Army of Portugal among the nations of the World!
«Let's follow it, soldiers! And sustain it with the body, even at the cost of our own blood!
«And with the help of God, and with the strength of our traditional beliefs , that the Blue and White symbolizes, we will save our Nation!»

«Long live king Manuel II!»
«Long live the Army! Long live the Portuguese Nation!»

Speech of Paiva Couceiro to his soldiers in the North Monarchy in 1919.