Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Epilogue: The Legacy of the Portuguese Empire
In 1524 Vasco da Gama made his third and final voyage to India. This man who had discovered the sea passage to India, returned not as an exp...
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Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 6: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf Campaigns
We enter in the final years of Afonso de Albuquerque as he continues his master strategy to bring the Indian Ocean under Portuguese control....
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 5: A Dangerous Homecoming
With Malacca captured, another part of Afonso de Albuquerque's great plan to conquor the Indian Ocean falls into place. With a King's ransom...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 4: The Capture of Malacca
The fabled city of Malacca was the portal through which the trade treasures of the Indian and Pacific Oceans flowed. It had a formidable arm...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 3: The Second Conquest of Goa
Beaten but not destroyed, Afonso de Albuquerque escapes from his prized city of Goa. However, he returns in just a few months and brings the...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 2 The First Conquest of Goa
Afonso de Albuerque's great strategy for conquest of the Indian Ocean begins at Goa. His initial plan unfolds perfectly - but he quickly lea...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 1
Afonso de Albuerque is finally installed as the Governor of India, but his plan are quickly derailed. His cousin Fernando Coutinho, the Mars...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 3
In the wake of his son's death, Fracnsico de Almeida takes the law into his own hands. His need for revenge culminates in the pivotal Battle...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 2
The Mamluk Armada appears in the Indian Ocean! It is deployed against the son of the Viceroy, Lourenço de Almeida. However, the young Almeid...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 1
With the battle of Cochin over, the Portuguese enter into a phase of conquest in 1505. This is spearheaded by the first Portuguese Viceroy,...
Age of Discovery - Duarte Pacheco Pereira
1504 The Zamorin of Calicut is on the warpath and about to hit the city of Cochin with a sledgehammer force of over 60,000 soldiers. The Por...
Age of Discovery - Vasco Da Gama - Part 4
1503 The Portuguese Empire in India faces major head winds. Vasco da Gama underestimates his old rival, the Samudri Raja of Calicut, and nea...
Age of Discovery - Vasco Da Gama - Part 3
1502 Vasco da Gama is placed in charge of the Fourth Portuguese Armada and returns to the Indian Ocean. In his last voyage he came as an exp...
Age of Discovery - Pedro Álvares Cabral
Dec 1500 The Portuguese trading outpost in Calicut has been destroyed. In the night a vast mob attacked, razed it, and killed nearly everyon...
Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Part 2
August 1498 Vasco Da Gama makes his way north along the Malabar Coast of India. He is on the run. Negotiations have broken down with the Kin...
Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Part 1
1498 - a Portuguese Fleet of four ships has travelled for nearly a year and now is in the middle of a vast ocean. It has covered a distance...
Age of Discovery - Bartolomeu Dias
Its 1487 and Bartolomeu Dias has traveled further than any European. He takes a gamble, subjecting his fleet to the will of nature. For 30 d...
Age of Discovery - Henry the Navigator
We begin the new series in the Age of Discovery with Henry the Navigator. He was warrior, a prince, and a businessman with an eye for seeing...
Queen Isabella of Castile - Reconquista - All Parts - The Life of a Legend
Combined all parts of the Reconquista: Isabella series into one long format. We look at the life of the Queen Isabella of Castile. To some a...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 6 - Epilogue
The Reconquista is over and Spain is on the fast track to becoming a global superpower. But do the ends justify the means? We look back now...
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