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Ragamuffin War, an Uncommon card
The Ragamuffin War, also known as the Ragamuffin Revolution or Heroic Decade, was a republican uprising that began in southern Brazil during the regency period, centered in the province of Rio Grande do Sul and, for a time, extending into Santa Catarina.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 60,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Ragamuffin War quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ragamuffin War card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ottoman wars in Europe. Ottoman wars in Europe 79 · Manuel Azaña 74 · Ragamuffin War 71 · Battle of Berestechko 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Manuel Azaña. Manuel Azaña 120,000 · Courland 75,000 · Ragamuffin War 60,000 · Anne of Romania 48,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It began on 20 September 1835, when rebel forces seized Porto Alegre, and soon turned into a wider confrontation between Brazil's imperial government and a coalition led by Bento Gonçalves and Antônio de Sousa Neto, who proclaimed the secession of the province and the creation of the Riograndense Republic following the rebel victory at the battle of Seival in 1836.
- The war is often situated within the political and institutional instability of Brazil's regency period, when several armed conflicts erupted across the country, exposing the fragility of the imperial authority amid disputes between the Central government and Brazil's provinces over the latter's degree of autonomy.
- In Rio Grande do Sul, whose economy relied on livestock and the production of jerked beef for the internal market, the immediate cause for revolt lay with the landowners dissatisfaction with high export taxes and import duties on salt imposed by the Imperial government, while Uruguay and Argentina benefited from more favorable taxation in Brazilian markets, thus making the local produce less…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ragamuffin War article was read about 60,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Ragamuffin War
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ragamuffin War (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Guilherme Litran, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

