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The Portuguese repelled every boarding attempt, but faced with the sheer number of Malaccan ships and unable to land any forces to rescue those Portuguese who had stayed in the feitoria, de Sequeira decided to sail back to India before the monsoon started and left them stranded in Southeast Asia. Before departing he sent a message to the Sultan ...
D. Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530) was a Portuguese fidalgo, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca. He arrived at Malacca on 11 September 1509 and left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah was planning his assassination .
In 1525 Gomes de Sequeira was pilot of a small ship captained by Diogo da Rocha, when in the Molucca Passage it was driven 200 to 300 leagues to the northeast by a storm to a large island. The island was given the name Ilha de Gomes de Sequeira. In 1975 William A. Lessa identified the island as Ulithi in the Caroline Islands. [4]
Duarte Fernandes was a Portuguese tailor. Born in the late 15th century, Fernandes was a New Christian, a classification used to describe people of Moorish or Jewish heritage. [1] In the early 1500s, Fernandes traveled to Malacca as part of the first expedition of Diogo Lopes de Sequeira in September 1509.
The Portuguese, left behind by Sequeira at Malacca were headed by the factor Rui de Araújo, who slipped letters to the governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque from prison with the aid of Nina Chatu, a dissatisfied Hindu merchant.
1511: de Albuquerque conquers Malacca, after Diogo Lopes de Sequeira's visit there in 1509. Malacca becomes a strategic base for Portuguese expansion in Southeast Asia. Also during the conquest, given their influence on the Malacca Peninsula, he sent Duarte Fernandes to the court of Ramathibodi II of the Kingdom of Siam. [2]
Under his sponsorship, Portuguese explorers crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere and found the islands in the Gulf of Guinea, including São Tomé and Príncipe. [ 20 ] In 1471, Gomes' explorers reached Elmina on the Gold Coast (present day Ghana ), and discovered a thriving overland gold trade between the natives and visiting Arab ...
Dom Garcia de Sá first appeared in India in 1518 together with the new Governor of Portuguese India Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. [3] In 1519-1521, he first time took the post of governor and captain-major of Malacca. [4]