The Portuguese Pioneers

Edgar Prestage

• Publisher: Johnston Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781406745931, 9781443726948
• eBook ISBN: 9781528760607
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The Pioneer Histories are intended to provide a broad survey of the great migrations of European people for purposes of trade, conquest and settlement into the non-European continents. They aim to describe a racial expansion which has created the complex world of today, so nationalistic in its instincts, so internationalised in its relationships. International affairs now claim the attention of every intelligent citizen, and problems of world-wide extent affect the security and livelihood of us all. He who would grasp their meaning and form sound judgements must look into the past for the foundations of the present, and, abandoning a local for a universal perspective, must take for his study the history of a world invaded by European ideas. It was less so in the days before the Great War. Then the emphasis was upon Europe itself: upon such questions as that of Frances eastern frontier inherited from Richelieu and Louis XIV, the militarism of Germany derived from Frederick the Great, and the Balkan entanglement which originated with the medieval migrations of Slavonic peoples and with the Turkish conquests of the fourteenth century. Now the prospect is wider, for these ancient domestic difficulties in modern form cannot properly be estimated except by correlation with the problems of a Europeanised outer world.

INDEX

Abraham, Rabbi, of Beja, 219, 221

Abreu, Antonio de, 304

Abyssinia, 33

entered by Covilhan, 221

mission to, 220

Adahu, 64 sqq.

Adam, William, 30, 215

Aden, 218-19, 298

Admedi, 134

Adrian VI, Pope, 242

Afonso III, King, fleet of, 3

Afonso IV, King, 5, 9, 10

Afonso V, King, 41, 51, 54, 168-169

grants privileges to shipbuilders, 12

receives from Pope concessions in Africa, 47

accession of, 62

grants trading rights to Cape Verde islands, 144

conquers Alcacer - Seguer, 152

suggested retrocession of Ceuta, 162-3

discoveries in reign of, 168

enterprises of, 173

declares war against England, 175

assumes new titles, 177, 190

farms out Guinea trade, 184

hands over direction of overseas possessions to son John, 188

marries his niece Joanna, 190

character of, 191

defeated by Castilians, 191

journeys to France and meets Louis XI

visits Charles the Bold, 191

attempts to abdicate, 192

death of, 193

orders destruction of foreign crews, 196

Afonso V, King of Aragon, 215

Afonso X of Castile, 8

Afonso Africano, 177

Afonso, Diogo, discovers some of Cape Verde islands, 143

visits Rio do Ouro, 73, 76

Afonso, Stephen, 84

Afonso Henriques, King, 3

Africa, cartography of, 32

coastal charts of West, 90

da Gama reaches East, 256

delineation of West coast of, 329

Dias’ voyage round South, 222

European knowledge of, 33

Laurentian map of, 327

people of North-West, 77

skirting of west of, 185

trading in North-West, 102 sqq.

Agadir, 178-79

Alarves, 167

Albafur, 134

Albergaria, Lopo Soares de, 307

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Editors’ Preface to the Series
• Introduction
• Contents
• Maps
• I. The Royal and Merchant Navy, and Early Voyages
• II. The Expedition to Ceuta. The Aims of Henry the Navigator
• III. Madeira, the Canaries and the Azores
• IV. From Bojador to Cape Verde
• V. Voyages from 1445 to 1448
• VI. First Voyage of Alvise da Cadamosto
• VII. Second Voyage of Cadamosto. Diogo Gomes and Antonio da Noli. Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands
• VIII. Life at Ceuta. The Conquest of Alcacer. Henry’s Death and Character
• IX. The Twenty Years after Prince Henry’s Death
• X. Progress under John II. The Voyages of Diogo Cão. The Search for Prester John. The Voyage of Bartholomew Dias
• XI. Westward Exploration
• XII. The First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
• XIII. North America, Brazil and the Orient
• XIV. Navigation, Cartography, Ships and Seamen
• Index