^正規軍の歩兵700、竜騎兵200、民兵1,800、インディアン1,200。Marley, David- Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present, vol. II, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2008, p. 441.
^"[Portuguese colonel] Osório built a small fort which he called Santa Teresa, where he took shelter with 400 men and little artillery (January 1763). Next April, Ceballos, who had gathered in Maldonado a well provisioned army of more than 3,000 men with much artillery, invested the Lusitanian position. After a weak resistance, Osório surrendered with the remaining 130 men. All the other had deserted." In Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul- Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul, Edições 132-134, Brazil, 1998, p. 12.
^"...Osório , arrives at Castilhos on the shores of Merín Lagoon with 400 men of the Dragoon Regiment of rio Pardo, 10 small artillery pieces, plus a work column, to commence construction ... of a border keep to be called Fort Santa Tereza...", In Marley, David- Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present, vol. II, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2008, p. 441.
^"Four days later, the small fort of San Miguel fell into the hands of Cevallos, abandoned by the garrison of 30 men which stayed there under cap. João Teixeira.", In Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul- Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul, Edições 132-134, Brazil, 1998, p. 12.
^"In the whole region of the Rio Grande, the Portuguese government did not have more than 1,000 soldiers, including regular and militia troops, spread over several trims." In Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul- Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul, Edições 132-134, Brazil, 1998, p. 12.
^"(...). In this 'race for the Rio Grande [territory]', the border of Rio Pardo was the only one who resisted the Spanish invasion, thanks to Barreto Pereira Pinto courage and, above all, Francisco Pinto Bandeira, which shattered the army of captain Antonio Cattani on January 1, 1763. Pinto Bandeira, with only 230 dragoons and adventurers of St. Paul, fell like a hurricane over the 2,500 enemy soldiers. 'Never saw this territory such a stampede.' (...). Cattani’s troops disbanded in panic. The commander, no time to put on the uniform, fled in underwear." In Barbosa, Fidélis D. – História do Rio Grande do Sul, Edições Est, 4th edition, Porto Alegre, 1976, p. 60.
^"While the Spanish army advanced along the coast, fully reaching their goals, another enemy column, consisting of five hundred militiamen from the Corrientes Province and about 2,000 Guaranis came from the Misiones Orientales against Rio Pardo, under lieutenant colonel Antonio Cattani and fortified next to the stream of Santa Barbara..." in Vellinho, Moysés- Fronteira, Editora Globo, 1975, p. 105.
^Bento, Cláudio Moreira- Brasil, conflitos externos 1500-1945 (electronic version), Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil, chapter 5: As guerras no Sul 1763-77.
^Bento, Cláudio Moreira- Rafael Pinto Bandeira in O Tuiuti, nr. 95, Academia de Historia Militar Terrestre do Brasil, 2013, pp. 3-18.
^"During the brief war of 1762-3, Spain had made sweeping gains [in the region of the River de la Plata, while suffering defeats in North and west Brazil]. After 1763, Madrid would not restore them, despite promising to do so in the Peace of Paris. This naturally produced tension…" In Scott, Hamish- British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution, Clarendon Press, 1990, p. 212.
^"According to this policy, the [Portuguese Prime minister] gave orders to begin a silent war against the Spanish possessions of Rio Grande do Sul and Chiquitos, In the frontier with Mato Grosso. The 'Deaf War (1763-1778)'. In Rosa, José María- Historia Argentina, 2nd edition, vol. I, J. C. Granda,1965, p. 390
^"In America, hostilities were not circumscribed to Rio Grande do Sul: clashes occurred in disputed territories such as the western frontier in Mato Grosso, and even in the distant North region Rio Branco." In In Azevedo, J. Lúcio de – O Marquês de Pombal e a sua época (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, Annuário do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, p. 277.
^"… the later agreement of San Ildefonso in 1777 and 1778, confirming Portuguese territorial expansion at Spanish expense. This Portuguese expansionism…" In Harold Davis; Frederic Peck and John Finan- Latin American Diplomatic History, Louisiana State University Press, 1977, p. 80
^"Hard topographical facts pre-determined what were to be the spheres of influence of the three contending countries, but it took the Spaniards many years to recognise this fact, until the year 1776, when they were finally defeated in the Rio Branco by the Portuguese" in Baldwin, Richard E.- The Rupuni Record, British Guiana, 1946, p. 19.
^"It was on the Uraricá in 1773 that the Spaniard Sergeant Juan Marcos Zapata, with a small force of men, coming from Venezuela, founded the [fortified] settlements of Santa Rosa. Later that year he also founded San Juan Bautista on the Uraricoera … This Spanish venture into what is now Brazil was short lived. The Portuguese soon heard of it, and mounted an expedition which brought an end to the Spanish presence in 1776 (see Hemming, 'How Brazil Acquired Roraima, pp. 310-13'.(…)." In Rivière, Peter- The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844, published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, series III, vol. I6, 2006, p. 327, ISBN 978-0-904180-86-2.
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