Manuel António Vassalo e Silva
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Manuel António Vassalo e Silva (Torres Novas, 8 November 1899 - Lisbon, 11 August 1985), only son of Manuel Caetano da Silva (1870-1926) and wife Maria da Encarnação Vassalo (1869-1922) and brother of Maria da Conceição, married with issue, Joana and Aurora, was the 128th and last governor general of Portuguese India. When the Republic of India sought to annex the territories of Goa, Daman (from which had been previously annexed the enclave of Nagar-Haveli) and Diu from Portuguese control in December 1961, Manuel Vassalo e Silva, recognizing the futility of facing a superior enemy, disobeyed direct orders from the Portuguese President of the Council of Ministers António Salazar to fight to the death and offered to surrender without a fight.
Recently it was said by the Portuguese Politician Narana Coissoró that Salazar sent him a cyanide capsule for the case of being defeated.
He was married to Fernanda Pereira e Silva Monteiro and had issue, a son and a daughter:
- Fernando Manuel Pereira Monteiro Vassalo e Silva (Lisbon, December 6, 1925 - Lisbon, June 9, 2006), married to Maria Amélia Franco Veiga (Lisbon, March 20, 1932 - March 17, 2004), daughter of António Veiga and wife Rosa Maria Garcia Franco, and had issue
- Maria Fernanda Pereira Monteiro Vassalo e Silva, married to Rui António da Cunha Bernardino, and had issue
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