What is Deodoro da Fonseca?
{{Infobox President | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | name= Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca | nationality=Brazilian | image=Deodoro da Fonseca sak.jpg | term_start=November 15, 1889 | term_end=November 23, 1891 | predecessor=[[Dom Pedro II]] | successor=[[Floriano Peixoto]] | birth_date={{birth date|1827|8|5|mf=y}} | birth_place= Alagoas (now [[Marechal Deodoro]]), [[Alagoas]] | death_date={{death date and age|1892|8|23|1827|8|5|mf=y}} | death_place=[[Rio de Janeiro (city)|Rio de Janeiro]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]] | spouse=[[Mariana da Fonseca]] | party=None | profession=[[Soldier]] | order=1st [[President of Brazil]] | vicepresident=[[Floriano Peixoto]] | branch =[[Brazilian Army|Army]] | serviceyears =1843-1892 | rank =[[Marshal]] | commands =[[Voluntários da Pátria|Voluntários da Pátria 2<sup>nd</sup> Battalion]] | battles =[[Paraguay War]] | awards =[[Order of the Southern Cross]] }} Marshal '''Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca''' ([[Marechal Deodoro|Alagoas City]], August 5, 1827 - [[Rio de Janeiro (city)|Rio de Janeiro]], August 23, 1892) was the first president of the [[Brazil|Republic of Brazil]] and he reached this position after a military strategy that put down the Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil|Pedro II]]. ==Biography== ===Family=== Son of [[Manuel Mendes da Fonseca]] (1785-1859) and Rosa Maria Paulina da Fonseca (1802-1873). His father was also a soldier and belonged to the [[Conservative Party (Empire of Brazil)|Conservative Party]]. He had two sisters and seven brothers and three of them died in the [[Paraguay War]]: [[Afonso Aurélio da Fonseca]] (the youngest), ensign of the 34º [[Voluntários da Pátria]] Battalion; captain [[Hipólito Mendes da Fonseca]], dead in the [[Battle of Curupaity]]; and major [[Eduardo Emiliano da Fonseca]], dead in the [[Battle of Itororó]]. His elder brother, [[Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca]], father of [[Hermes da Fonseca]], was a marshal in the [[Brazilian Army]], president of [[Mato Gr