War of Canudos

The War of Canudos (, , 1895–1898) was a conflict between the state of Brazil and some 30,000 settlers who had founded a community named Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia. After a number of unsuccessful attempts at military suppression, the conflict came to a brutal end in October 1897 when a large Brazilian army force overran the village and killed nearly all the inhabitants. This conflict marks the deadliest civil war in Brazilian history.

The setting

The conflict had its origins in the settlement of Canudos (named by its inhabitants Belo Monte meaning "Beautiful Hill," in the semi-arid backlands (sertão or caatinga, in Portuguese) in the northeast tip of the state (then province) of Bahia. At this time, Bahia was a desperately poor zone with aSterling has seven goals in 506 minutes played in the league

Pep Guardiola has praised Raheem Sterling's desire to improve his goal return and warned forwards will only "survive" by finding the net regularly.

Sterling, 22, has 10 goals in all competitions this season, double his return at the same stage in 2016-17.

Guardiola says the forward has spent "many, many hours" working on finishing with first-team coach Mikel Arteta.

"He knows a striker has to score goals and he has to do that if he wants to achieve the next step," said Guardiola.

"You won't survive in the high level teams in his position if you don't score goals. And now he's seeing how fun, how good it is, to score goals. I think he's enjoying scoring goals, he's not scared, he's