![]() ![]() Boxer retired from the army at the rank of major in 1947 and moved his family to the family estate in Broadmayne, Dorset, England. In 1945, Boxer divorced Tulloch as a result of his widely publicized love affair, and he married Hahn in New York on November 28. The Japanese military also confiscated his prized rare book collection and transferred it to the Imperial Library Boxer later recovered most of his library. In December 1941, the Japanese invaded Hong Kong and took Boxer as a prisoner of war until the conclusion of World War II. While in Hong Kong, Boxer fell in love with the American feminist writer Emily (Mickey) Hahn (1905-1997). On June 8, 1939, he married Ursula Norah Anstice Tulloch (1909-1996), and Boxer was stationed in Hong Kong from 1939 to 1941 to serve as chief of army intelligence. ![]() Before the start of World War II, Boxer made his mark in academic circles by publishing over eighty scholarly works. From 1930 to 1933, he was seconded to a regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army, an experience that stimulated his scholarly interest in East Asian cultures and history and impacted his later academic career. In 1924, Boxer began his military service by joining the Lincolnshire Regiment. He attended Wellington College from 1918 to 1921 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1922 to 1923. Keywords: Armando Cortesão (1891-1977) Portuguese Cartography of 15th and 16th centuries History of Portuguese Cartography History of Discoveries and Portuguese Expansion Historiography, Nationalism and Ideology.Charles Ralph Boxer was born on March 8, 1904, in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England, to Hugh Edward Richard Boxer and Jane Patterson. ![]() We can witness how the author distinguished himself not only at the historiographical level but in domains such as agronomy, colonial administration, history of science and international relations, and how he got a deep knowledge of the overseas reality whose heritage and priority in Portuguese sovereignty he always passionately defended. In this research we come to find out how the Author evolved from a republican liberal middle class educated family living in the inner region of the country, to become an oppositionist to Salazar’s regimen forcing him to years of exile where the Anglo-Saxon cultural influence prevails. A second stage, a period of authors’ recognition, crowned at the beginnings of the sixties by his opus magnum the Portvgaliae Monvmenta Cartographica, in co authorship with Teixeira da Mota and, at last, a third stage of notorious international acceptance, a visible academic recognition and an intense writing production till his dead leaving unfinished his History of Portuguese Cartography, published in 1969/70. We try to determine the author’s researching path following three distinct stages: the first writings, till the publication of Cartografia e cartógrafos portugueses dos séculos XV e XVI, in the year 1935. ![]() This research is focused on Armando Cortesão, the man and his works, and follows an author bio bibliographic profile aiming to relate his legacy in the domains of the History of Portuguese Expansion and Early Cartography, with his life and personal beliefs that punctuates his writings from the twenties till his death. ![]()
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