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The Portuguese in the Age of Discovery c 1340 1665 1st Edition by David Nicolle ISBN 1849088489 9781849088480

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Author(s): David Nicolle
ISBN(s): 9781849088480, 1849088489
Edition: Illustrated
File Details: PDF, 16.48 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1849088489

ISBN 13: 9781849088480 

Author: David Nicolle 

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world’s first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia).

Portugal had established its present-day borders by 1300 and the following century saw extensive warfare that confirmed Portugal’s independence and allowed it to aspire to maritime expansion, sponsored by monarchs such as Prince Henry the Navigator. During this nearly 300-year period, the Portuguese fought alongside other Iberian forces against the Moors of Andalusia; with English help successfully repelled a Castilian invasion (1385); fought the Moors in Morocco, and Africans, the Ottoman Turks, and the Spanish in colonial competition.

David Nicolle’s detailed text examines these Portuguese forces that prevailed in these battles on land and sea.

Table of contents:

  1. Portugal in the early 14th century – archaic early armies

  2. Modernization under English influence – English alliance in Hundred Years’ War – defeat of Spanish invasion

  3. Reconquista of the Muslim south

  4. Expansion in early 15th century: invasion of Morocco – voyages of discovery (Vasco da Gama, etc.) – trading/military expeditions around African coast – in Indian Ocean

  5. Consolidation, mid-15th–16th centuries: merchant colonies – raising of local colonial forces – invasion and colonization of Brazil

  6. Fighting off the competition

  7. Resistance to Spanish pressure, 16th century – metropolitan forces – final loss of independence to Spain, 1580 

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