Joao Jose da Cunha Fidie (died 1856) was a Portuguese general who fought in the Peninsular War and the Brazilian War of Independence.
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Cunha Fidie enlisted in the Portuguese Army in 1809 as a cadet and fought at the Battle of Albuera, the Battle of Vitoria, the Siege of Badajoz, and the Battle of Toulouse. He offered to join the Division of Real Volunteers that departed for Montevideo during the Brazilian War of Independence. In 1817 he became the leader of the 15th Infantry Regiment and fought in many of the battles of the war against the Brazilian Empire, winning the Battle of Jenipapo. He defended Caxias in 1824 but when he surrendered, Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil imprisoned him in St. Francis Xavier's Island for a short while before allowing him to return to Portugal.
From 1837 to 1848 he was the director of the Royal Military College and in 1854 became a Lieutenant-General. He died two years later.