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    The Portuguese Indian Armadas (Portuguese: Armadas da Índia; meaning "Armadas of India") were the fleets of ships funded by the Crown of Portugal, and...
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  • Look up Armada or armada in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet. Armáda is the Czech and Slovak...
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    The Second Portuguese India Armada was assembled in 1500 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral...
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  • 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...
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    The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible Inglesa, lit. 'English Invincible'), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack...
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    Armada was assembled in 1505 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of D. Francisco de Almeida, the first Portuguese Viceroy...
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    The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate...
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    The Portuguese Navy (Portuguese: Marinha Portuguesa, also known as Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa or as Armada Portuguesa) is the naval branch of the Portuguese...
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  • The Third Portuguese India Armada was assembled in 1501 upon the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of João da Nova. It was...
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    that appears in Os Lusíadas of the Portuguese epic poet Luís Vaz de Camões, who opposed the boarding of the armada.[citation needed] Os Lusíadas is often...
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  • The Spanish Armada was the fleet that attempted to escort an army from Flanders as a part the Habsburg Spanish invasion of England in 1588, was divided...
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    African coast in order to evade the Portuguese caravels which were pursuing him. Toward the end of October, as the Armada approached the equator, they experienced...
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  • evade an English squadron of warships. In the Armada he had command of the galleon São João de Portugal (1,150 tons, 500 men, 50 guns) of the Biscayan...
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  • India Armada was assembled in 1504 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of Lopo Soares de Albergaria. The 6th Armada was...
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    de Recalde, KOS (c. 1540 – 23 October 1588) was a Spanish Navy officer who was named admiral of the fleet and second-in-command of the Spanish Armada...
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    King Manuel I of Portugal made Almeida, then in his mid-fifties, the first viceroy of Portuguese India (Estado da Índia). With an armada of 22 ships, including...
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    of the Portuguese Colonial War. The revolution began as a coup organised by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA),...
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  • "Invincible Armada" in 1588 São Mateus (G) - part of the Portuguese Squadron of the "Invincible Armada" São Cristóvão (G) - part of the Portuguese Squadron...
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  • The Fifth India Armada was assembled in 1503 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque. It was Albuquerque's...
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  • Portuguese). 2024-01-15. Retrieved 2024-04-10. Revista da Armada 84, p. 11 Revista da Armada 347, p. 8 Revista da Armada 347, p. 9 Revista da Armada 355...
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    archduchess's dowry at 100,000 crowns, a vast sum for the day. The armada that Portugal sent to escort Maria Anna from the Low Countries to Lisbon arrived...
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    Fernández Duro, Cesáreo (1972). Armada Española desde la Unión de los Reinos de Castilla y Aragón. Museo Naval de Madrid, Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval...
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    Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
    were able to challenge Portugal's monopoly and naval supremacy in the Cape Route. Da Gama led two of the Portuguese India Armadas, the first and the fourth...
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    posts for commodities, ranging from gold to slavery. Portugal discovered the Portuguese India Armadas via the Cape of Good Hope. The Treaty of Tordesillas...
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    The Forças Armadas de Cabinda (FAC), or Armed Forces of Cabinda, is the armed wing of the political Cabindan nationalist group Frente para a Libertação...
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    in the many events related to that armada. In February, 1503, as the armada was about to return to Portugal, Pero de Ataíde was appointed as captain of...
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    Forces General Staff (Portuguese: Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas), or EMGFA, is the supreme military body of Portugal. It is responsible for...
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    "Embarcações Salva-vidas". "Armada Portuguesa: Autoridade Maritima Nacional". Armada Portuguesa. Retrieved 2022-01-02. "Plano de Atividades da DGAM 2020"...
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    The Portuguese Armed Forces (Portuguese: Forças Armadas) are the military of Portugal. They include the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the other unified...
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    several lands of Portugal, says Veríssimo Serrão in «História de Portugal», volume V, page 115, "they made waves of men for their armada. In Coimbra and...
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