Constitutionalist Revolution

Revolutionary troops entrenched in the battlefield.

Date	July 9, 1932–October 2, 1932
Location	São Paulo and some parts of Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Result	Legalist victory, Brazilian constitution of 1934

Belligerents

São Paulo

Public Force (Police) (and volunteers)

Maracaju

Volunteers rebels

Rio Grande do Sul

Gaucho United Front

Brazil

Commanders and leaders

Pedro Manuel de Toledo

Vespasiano Martins

Euclides Figueiredo

Júlio de Mesquita Filho

Gen. Bertoldo Klinger

Borges de Medeiros

Artur Bernardes

Getúlio Vargas

Gen. Góis Monteiro

Strength

40,000 soldiers (military police and volunteers)
30 Armored Vehicles
44 artillery
9-10 aircraft

100,000 soldiers (Army and Navy)
90 Armored Vehicles
250 artillery
58 aircraft
4 Warships (naval blockade)

Casualties and losses

2,200 estimated dead

1,050 estimated dead

3,800 wounded

1,050 estimated dead

The Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 (sometimes also referred to as Paulista War or Brazilian Civil War) is the name given to the uprising of the population of the Brazilian state of São Paulo against the 1930 coup d'état when Getúlio Vargas forcibly assumed the nation's Presidency; Vargas was supported by the military and the political elites of Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraíba. The movement grew out of local resentment from the fact that Vargas ruled by decree, unbound by a Constitution, in a provisional government. The 1930 coup also affected São Paulo by eroding the autonomy that states enjoyed during the term of the 1891 Constitution and preventing the inauguration of the governor of São Paulo Júlio Prestes in the Presidency of the Republic, while simultaneously overthrowing President Washington Luís, who was governor of São Paulo from 1920 to 1924. These events marked the end of the First Republic. Vargas appointed a northeasterner as governor of São Paulo.

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