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FEPA NEWS 45 76 The World of Research Rear of the above photograph. Armband used by the students of the Coimbra Academic Battalion. In closing, a word to say that a second Academic Battalion was formed in Porto, though its ideology was monarchist, and it came to be known as the Royal Porto Academic Battalion. Materials telling the story of the rebellion On February 21st 1932, 13 years after the defeat of the monarchists, the students who formed the Academic Battalion met in Coimbra to celebrate the victory of the republicans over the monarchists. The menu (left) which shows: Veal Escallops à Financeira (à Salazar?). The year was 1932, the year António Oliveira Salazar took office as prime minister, accumulating the post with that of finance minister. The Republican Academic Battalion at the Coimbra meeting (right). It was commanded by second-lieutenant Ribeiro da Costa, its weapons having been given to it by the 35th Coimbra Infantry Regiment. The students at the meeting at the Janelas Verdes barracks where the Academic Battalion was to be formed. A group of trauliteiros. This was the name given to the supporters of the monarchists owing to the violence of their actions – traulito is a cudgel in Portuguese, hence cudgel-wielders.