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Vasco da Gama terá nascido na vila de Sines, apontando-se a data de 1469. Seu pai, Estevão da Gama, estivera ligado à Casa de Viseu, tendo mais tarde ocupado um lugar na Ordem de Santiago, sendo detentor de uma comenda desta e exercendo os cargos de alcaide-mor e capitão da vila de Sines.
Jul 10, 2017 · Paulo da Gama, who had remained with the ships, so as to be prepared to render succour in case of need, no sooner heard the reports of the bombards than he started in the Berrio. The Moors, who were already flying, fled still faster, and gained the land before the Berrio was able to come up with them.
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- Early Life
- Preparation
- First Voyage to India
- Return & Recognition
- The India Route Is Established
- Second Voyage to India
- Death & Legacy
Vasco da Gama was born c. 1469 in Sines in the Alentejo region of Portugal. His father was Estêvão da Gama, a member of the minor nobility and his mother was Dona Isabel Sodré. Like his father, Vasco was involved in the Military Order of Santiago. He also became a member of the court of King Manuel I of Portugal (r. 1495-1521). Little is known abou...
The Portuguese Crown had already colonized with success three archipelagoes: Madeira (1420), the Azores (1439), and Cape Verde (1462) in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa. The treacherous Cape Bojador was navigated in 1434, and it was discovered that ships with lateen sails and on a bold course out to catch winds and currents in the mid-Atl...
The Portuguese explorer set off from the mouth of the Tagus River near Lisbon on 8 July 1497 and reached the Portuguese colony of the Cape Verde Islands where he refitted and resupplied his ships. He left Cape Verde on 3 August and, instead of hugging the African coast, he sailed out westwards into the mid-Atlantic in a wide curve in the hope of ca...
In October, da Gama recrossed the Indian Ocean, this time meeting a series of calms and storms. Scurvy struck again, leaving the ships short of able crew as over 30 men died. Returning to Malindi on 2 January 1499, the surviving crew members were revived but so many had succumbed to the disease that the São Rafael was abandoned for lack of crew to ...
The Portuguese now had a maritime route that allowed them to gain direct access to the riches of the East and cut out middlemen traders. In addition, it seemed (completely mistakenly) that there were Christian kingdoms in the east that could be useful allies against the Mamluk Sultanate. There had been some European trade contacts before with India...
In 1502-3, as the Portuguese Empire in the East became a reality, Vasco da Gama sailed a 15-ship fleet to Calicut (the fourth so far to be sent to the Malabar Coast by Manuel) in a revenge attack for the murder of a group of Portuguese led by Cabral, who himself had been guilty of atrocities in Calicut. Da Gama was also instructed by the Portuguese...
In April 1524, after a period of being out of royal favour (he was made a Count in 1519 but only after he threatened to defect to Spain), da Gama returns to the limelight when he sailed for a third time to India to take up his new role as viceroy. The old mariner had certainly clocked up some sea miles but he was seriously ill when he landed in Nov...
- Mark Cartwright
Vasco da Gama was the Portuguese navigator whose voyages to India opened up the sea route from western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese sailor and explorer who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Paulo da Gama (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpawlu ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]; c. 1465 – June or July 1499) was a Portuguese explorer, son of Estêvão da Gama and Isabel Sodré, and the older brother of Vasco da Gama.
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Vasco da Gama was the third of five sons of Estêvão da Gama and Isabel Sodré – in (probable) order of age: Paulo da Gama, João Sodré, Vasco da Gama, Pedro da Gama and Aires da Gama. Vasco also had one known sister, Teresa da Gama, who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos.
