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Vasco da Gama on his arrival in India in May 1498, bearing the flag used during the first voyage by sea to this part of the world: the arms of Portugal and the Cross of the Order of Christ, sponsors of the expansion movement initiated by Henry the Navigator, are seen.
The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships [19] with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon. The distance traveled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than the length of the equator.
The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) Vasco da Gama's squadron left Portugal on 8 July 1497, consisting of four ships and a crew of 170 men. It rounded the Cape and continued along the coast of Southeast Africa, where a local pilot was brought on board who guided them across the Indian Ocean, reaching Calicut in ...
Vasco da Gama, a pioneering explorer, sailed from Europe to the Indian Ocean in 1497, with his ship being the first to go round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
The 4th Portuguese India Armada was a Portuguese fleet that sailed from Lisbon in February, 1502. Assembled on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of D. Vasco da Gama, it was the fourth of some thirteen Portuguese India Armadas, was Gama's second trip to India, and was designed as a punitive expedition targeting Calicut to avenge the numerous defeats of the 2nd ...
These armadas undertook the Carreira da Índia (' India Run ') from Portugal, following the maritime discovery of the Cape route, to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama in 1497–99. The annual Portuguese India armada was the main carrier of the spice trade between Europe and Asia during the 16th Century.
1497-1499: Vasco da Gama, accompanied by Nicolau Coelho and Bartolomeu Dias, was the first European to reach India by sailing from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean exclusively by a sea route. 1500-1501: After the discovery of Brazil, Pedro Álvares Cabral with half the original fleet of 13 ships and 1,500 men undertook the second Portuguese ...
Vasco da Gama headed an expedition which led to the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India in 1498, and a series of expeditions known as the Carreira da Índia. Since then, the Cape Route has been in use. Christopher Columbus sought to find a westward sea route to the Indian subcontinent, but instead found the way to the Americas.