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The first Portuguese feitoria overseas was established by Henry the Navigator in 1445 on the island of Arguin, off the coast of Mauritania. It was built to attract Muslim traders and monopolize the business in the routes traveled in North Africa.
Diogo Lopes de Sequeira successfully reached the city and was warmly welcomed by the local sultan Mahmud Shah, who granted the Portuguese commander authorization to establish a feitoria or trade post. Wary of their interests, the influential Muslim merchant community of the city conspired with the Sultan and convinced him to turn on the Portuguese.
Portuguese navigators reached ever more southerly latitudes, advancing at an average rate of one degree a year. [18] Senegal and Cape Verde Peninsula were reached in 1445. In the same year, the first overseas feitoria (trading post) was established under Henry's direction, on the island of Arguin off the coast of Mauritania.
Wellesley, aided by the remaining Portuguese regiments hastily scraped together, liberated Portugal. A third invasion took place, led by Marshal André Masséna. The Anglo-Portuguese Army managed to halt the French advance at the fortifications of Torres Vedras and successfully defeat Masséna's troops, and slowly recovered the Iberian ...
The feitoria in the city was attacked by an armed mob and about 50 Portuguese were killed, among them the agent Aires Correia, a number of Franciscan friars and Pêro Vaz de Caminha, while the rest managed to escape to the fleet, most of them wounded. [22]
Sinhalese army Victory; Portuguese didn't attack Kingdom of Kandy again; Siege of Daman (1638–1639) Location: Indian subcontinent. Portuguese Empire. Portuguese India; Mughal Empire: Victory: Mazagan Ambush (1640) Part of Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts; Location: North Africa Portuguese Empire: Republic of Salé: Defeat: Portuguese ...
While Finance Minister António de Oliveira Salazar managed to discipline the Portuguese public finances, it evolved into a single-party corporative regime in the early 1930s—the Estado Novo—whose first three decades were also marked by a relative stagnation and underdevelopment; as such, by 1960 the Portuguese GDP per capita was only 38% ...
The first major battle of the Anglo-Portuguese Army was the Battle of Bussaco in 1810, the success of which gave the inexperienced Portuguese troops confidence in their abilities. The infantry and artillery went on to perform well up until the final Battle of Toulouse in 1814 when news arrived of Napoleon's abdication.