This is the third part of a five part series on the Revolt of the Fifth of July, 1922, at the end of which a small group of rebelling troops made a suicidal attack on a much larger force. In the previous sections we told how Epitácio Pessoa, the President of Brazil, imprisoned Marshal Hermes da Fonseca, Head of the Army. In response, a group of young Army officers, lead by Captain Euclides Hermes da Fonseca, son of the Marshal, have plotted a rebellion.
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This is the third part of a five part series on the Revolt of the Fifth of July, 1922, at the end of which a small group of rebelling troops made a suicidal attack on a much larger force. In the previous sections we told how Epitácio Pessoa, the President of Brazil, imprisoned Marshal Hermes da Fonseca, Head of the Army. In response, a group of young Army officers, lead by Captain Euclides Hermes da Fonseca, son of the Marshal, have plotted a rebellion. 
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