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Portuguese Army Exército Português Portuguese Army Coat of Arms Active 25 July 1139 – present (879 years, 7 months) Country   Portugal Type Army Role Land force Size 35,000 military 1,897 civilians [1] Part of Portuguese Armed Forces Patron Afonso I of Portugal (civil) Saint George (religious) Motto(s) Em perigos e guerras esforçados ("Forceful in perils and in battle-post", from The Lusiads , Canto I, 1, v. 5) Engagements Reconquista 1383–1385 Crisis War of the Castilian Succession Persia–Portugal war Ethiopian-Adal War Dutch–Portuguese War Turkish-Portuguese Wars War of the Portuguese Succession Malayan-Portuguese War Portuguese Restoration War War of the Spanish Succession Seven Years' War French Revolutionary Wars War of the Oranges Peninsular War Luso-Brazilian invasion Brazilian War of Independence Liberal Wars First Carlist War World War I Portuguese-Indian War (1961) Portuguese Colonial War EUFOR Afghanistan War Peac