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	Vasco Da Gama - LoveToKnow 1911
		In prosecution of da Gama's discoveries another fleet of thirteen ships was immediately sent out to India under Pedro Alvares Cabral, who, in sailing too far westward, by accident discovered Brazil, and on reaching his destination established a factory at Calicut.
		Soon after his return da Gama retired to his residence in Evora, possibly from pique at not obtaining so high rewards as he expected, but more probably in order to enjoy the wealth and position which he had acquired; for he was now one of the richest men in the kingdom.
		The fifth of these was so unfortunate that da Gama was recalled from his seclusion by Emanuel's successor, John III., and nominated viceroy of India, an honour which in April 1524 he left Lisbon to assume.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Vasco_Da_Gama (1028 words)

	Vasco da Gama
		Gama was naturally "very disdainful, ready to anger, and very rash," but no peculiarities of disposition -- nothing whatever -- can excuse such acts as his, which have justly left a stain on his character that neither time nor the brightness of his fame as a navigator can in the slightest degree obliterate.
		Soon after his return Vasco retired to his residence in Evora, and for twenty years took no part in public affairs, either from pique at not obtaining, as is supposed by some, so high rewards as he expected, or because he had in some way offended Manoel.
		The important discoveries of Vasco da Gama had the immediate result of enriching Portugal, and raising her to one of the foremost places among the nations of Europe, and by degrees the far greater one of hastening the colonization and civilization of the East by opening its commerce to the great Western powers.
	www.1902encyclopedia.com /G/GAM/vasco-da-gama.html (880 words)

	Vasco da Gama
		Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal in 1469.
		Da Gama also served as a navel officer, and in 1492 he commanded a defense of Portuguese colonies from the French on the coast of Guinea.
		Da Gama was enraged, and on August 29, 1498, da Gama and his crew departed with all of their possessions and five hostages.
	www.indhistory.com /vasco-da-gama.html (1006 words)

	Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 - 1524)
		Da Gama learned that they traded with Arab merchants and that four Arab vessels laden with gold, jewels, silver, and spices were then in port; he was also told that Prester John, the long-sought Christian ruler, lived in the interior but held many coastal cities.
		Da Gama, in the "São Gabriel," continued to Terceira Island in the Azores, whence he is said to have dispatched his flagship to Lisbon.
		Da Gama himself commanded 10 ships, which were in turn supported by two flotillas of five ships each, each flotilla being under the command of one of his relations.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/gama.html (1616 words)

	Vasco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco da Gama (town), a city in Goa named after him.
		Vasco Gonçalves, Prime Minister of Portugal from 1974 to 1975.
		VASCO — VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (VASCO) is a public company with NASDAQ symbol VDST, which was founded in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vasco (143 words)

	GoaCentral.Com-Dom Vasco da Gama
		Vasco da Gama's father Estevão da Gama was the chosen one to lead the expedition, but his unexpected death led King John II nominating Vasco da Gama to lead the expedition.
		Vasco da Gama was not commissioned to conquer new lands but rather to seek out Christian kingdoms in the East and to secure for Portugal access to the greater markets of Asia.
		Tomb of Vasco da Gama at the Monastery of the Jeronimos, Portugal.
	goacentral.com /Goahistory/VascodaGama.htm (1219 words)

	Vasco da Gama
		Da Gama’s father was a member of the royal household of Prince Dom Frenoyo, and young Vasco grew up in the town of Lisbon.
		On one of da Gama’s voyages, so many sailors died that they had to burn one of their ships because there were not enough sailors to handle it.
		Vasco da Gama was 64 and living at his house in Portugal with his wife, Cateriana de Ataide, and his 6 sons, when in 1524 King John III named him Viceroy to India.
	www.asij.ac.jp /elementary/gr5web/c5r/explorer_reports/gwen.htm (1492 words)

	Vasco da Gama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco da Gama was a very famous Portuguese navigator, who took many maritime actions for his country.
		Vasco was born in Sines, Alemtejo in 1469.
		Da Gama was described as a man of medium hieght, good mood, liked a challage, and was very strong.
	www.wadsworth.k12.oh.us /central/Explorers/daGama.htm (632 words)

	Vasco da Gama Arrives in India: 1498 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Da Gama also served as a navel officer, and in 1492 he commanded a defense of Portuguese colonies from the French on the coast of Guinea.
		Da Gama was not able to establish his trading station or negotiate a trading agreement, because the Zamorin (samudrin raja, the Hindu King) did not want to alienate the local merchants.
		Da Gama was enraged, and on August 29, 1498, da Gama and his crew departed with all of their possessions and five hostages.
	www.npcts.edu /history/WebChron/WestEurope/DaGama.CP.html (906 words)

	vaso de gama
		Vasco da Gama was a grim, cynical man, notoriously merciless, an expert at torturing prisoners.
		Vasco da Gama finally turned toward the coast of Africa and landed near the southern tip of that continent.
		Vasco da Gama's first act was to capture a passenger ship carrying Muslim families home to Calicut from a pilgrimage to Mecca.
	www.autef.com /explorers/vasco_de_gama.html (1743 words)

	Vasco de Gama
		Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese navigator, famed for leading an expedition which opened the sea route from Europe via the Cape of Good Hope to India.
		Vasco was born, circa 1469, to a noble family (his father was Estêvão da Gama and his mother was Isabel Sodré) in Sines, Province of Alemtejo, Portugal.
		Da Gama’s father had originally been chosen by King João II to make this historic voyage, but both passed away before the project could be carried into execution.
	www.southafrica.to /history/VascoDeGama.htm (384 words)

	P.A.H.R. Foundation -- Our Mission
		Vasco da Gama was born in 1469 in Sines, Alemtejo, Portugal.
		His father Estevao da Gama was the Alcaide of Sines who also held a post in the court of King Afonso V. Little is known of the early childhood or adolescence of Vasco da Gama, except that he grew up in a maritime environment learning very early in life to fish, swim and sail.
		Vasco da Gama's gifts to the ruler were infinitely poorer in quality and were even seen as offensive to be offered to a ruler who was accustomed to much more luxurious riches.
	www.portuguesefoundation.org /goans.htm (6942 words)

	(GCC53D) Vasco da Gama by Ricardo Silva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco da Gama, a portuguese discoverer, is famous for his completion of the first all water trade route between Portugal and India.
		Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal, in 1469.
		Vasco da Gama also served as a navy officer, and in 1492 he commanded a defense of Portuguese colonies from the French on the coast of Guinea.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.asp?ID=50493 (599 words)

	Vasco Da'Gama
		Vasco da Gama was born in Portugal in 1460; he grew up in a small seaside town in which his father had been given an estate as a reward for fighting the Moslems.
		Vasco da Gama was made viceroy of Portuguese India, took one last trip to India, and he ruled for 8 months.
		Vasco da Gama had8 months as a Vice Roy, and a true reason to be a proud citizen of Portugal for 64 years during the age of great exploration.
	www.wtisbury.mv.k12.ma.us /projects/explorer_web/sarah.html (657 words)

	dagamma.HTM
		Vasco da Gama was a grim, cynical man, notoriously merciless, an expert at torturing prisoners.
		Vasco da Gama finally turned toward the coast of Africa and landed near the southern tip of that continent.
		Vasco da Gama's first act was to capture a passenger ship carrying Muslim families home to Calicut from a pilgrimage to Mecca.
	www.oldnewspublishing.com /dagamma.htm (2731 words)

	Vasco da Gama
		Vasco da Gama (1469?-1524), was a Portuguese sea captain and explorer.
		Da Gama became a naval officer in 1492 and commanded ships along the coast of Portugal.
		Da Gama's father had been chosen to lead the expedition, but he died before the plans were completed.
	nemendur.khi.is /vitoeuge/interest.htm (506 words)

	Search Tuna Report for Vasco De Gama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vasco Da Gama In January, 1497, the command of the expedition was solemnly conferred upon Vasco da Gama, and on 8 July, 1497, the fleet sailed from Lisbon under the leadership of Vasco, his brother Paulo, and Nicoláo Coelho, with a crew of about one hundred and fifty men....
		Vasco Da Gama In the same year he attacked and plundered Calicut in revenge for the murder of some Portuguese sailors....
		VASCO DA GAMA - the maritime explorer 1469 - 1524 May 22, 1998 marked the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in the South Indian port of Calicut....
	searchtuna.com /ftlive/936.html (6001 words)

	Gama, Vasco da - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco da Gama's birth in 1469 in Sines, Portugal is one of the few things we know about his life before the voyage to India.
		Da Gama and his remaining crew arrived back in Portugal in September, 1499 to be hailed as heroes.
		Vasco da Gama returned twice more to India: once to avenge Portuguese merchants who were killed by Muslim traders in 1502 and another time to become the viceroy of India in 1524.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2gamavasco.htm (1552 words)

	vascodagama city guide, travel guide vascodagama , vascodagama guide
		The busy port town of Vasco da Gama, named after the Portuguese mariner and explorer who discovered the sea route to India 500 years ago, is a major shipping centre in Goa.
		Vasco is strategically located as a transport hub for sea, air and rail travel to Goa - about its only claim to fame according to intrepid Goa-goers.
		However, Vasco’s beaches are quiet and attractive and the old Portuguese villages in the interior have their own special charm.
	india.journeymart.com /vascodagama/default.asp (557 words)

	Storm Tidings: Vasco da Gama
		Unfortunately, one of da Gama's officers, Fernao Velloso, was a little too pushy when he tried to induce the locals to return the hospitality and they were reluctantly forced to request the Portuguese to sail on.
		Da Gama was forced to admit that the trinkets were indeed it.
		Eventually, da Gama found a couple of merchants who could not resist the opportunity and he was able to purchase a handful of spices for an outrageous sum.
	adamastorshire.co.za /chronicler/stormtidings/archive/jan/dagama.html (1746 words)

	Portuguese explorers - Vasco da Gama
		Vasco de Gama was born at Sines, a small seaport in the Province of Alemtejo.
		The da Gama family was not originally Portugues, Estevao came from the southern provinces of Alemtejo (part of Portugal), Isabel Sodr, on the other hand, was English, but Vasco didn't think of any place but Portugal as his home.
		In January, 1497, the command of the expedition was solemnly conferred upon Vasco da Gama, and on 8 July, 1497.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/about_portugal/101862 (430 words)

	Search Tuna Report for Vasco Da Gama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco Da Gama Dom Vasco da Gama was born circa 1469 at Sines and died on Christmas eve in Cochin, India, in 1524, being Viceroy of India....
		Vasco Da Gama Dom Vasco da Gama was born circa 1469 at Sines and died on Christmas...
		VASCO da GAMA (1460?-1524) The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama led an expedition at the end of the 15th century that opened the sea route to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa 6....
	searchtuna.com /ftlive/949.html (4296 words)

	Vasco da Gama Tourism, Vasco da Gama Goa Tourism, Vasco da Gama Tourism Guide: India Line Travel
		Vasco da Gama sits on the narrow western tip of the Marmagoa peninsula, overlooking the mouth of the Zuari River.
		Vasco da Gama was formerly among the busiest ports on India's west coast.
		Vasco, or rather Marmugoa, was a strong contender for the post.
	www.indialine.com /travel/goa/vascodagama (1114 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: 500 years after Vasco da Gama arrived in India, a controversy erupts over commemoration of the event
		Goa, the longest-held Portuguese territory, was conquered by Alfonso de Albuquerque in 1510, not by Vasco da Gama.
		Gama was interested in making money, in building his career as a noble, and in acting out the orders of the Crown to a rather limited extent.
		Vasco da Gama made a discovery and if the Portuguese want to celebrate, they are free to do it.
	www.rediff.com /news/jun/09gama.htm (2004 words)

	Vasco da Gama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco (VAHSH koo) da Gama (duh GAH muh) (1469?-1524), was a Portuguese sea captain and explorer.
		Da Gama became a naval officer in 1492 and commanded ships along the coast of Portugal.
		Da Gama's father had been chosen to lead the expedition, but he died before the plans were completed.
	www.worldbook.com /features/explorers/html/newworld_gama.html (519 words)

	Vasco da Gama Pedro Cabral Albuquerque Ternate Tidore
		Da Gama was hoping to sail as far as 34 degrees South, the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope, but landed on the African coast, just one degree north, to anchor at a place he named St. Helena Bay on November 4th.
		Da Gama hoped to impress the Sultan at Mozambique by inviting him for a meal aboard his ship, but the bracelets and bells offered as gifts were considered worthless and relations were less than cordial.
		Da Gama's uncle, Sodre, engaged in similar conduct, beating the chief Muslim merchant until he fainted, then stuffing his mouth with excrement and covering it with a slab of pork.
	www.periclespress.com /Dutch_Portugal.html (7570 words)

	Official Website of Department of Tourism, Goa, India
		The industrial town of Vasco-da-Gama, named after the Portuguese voyager, lies around 30 kms away from the capital city of Panaji and is spread around the base of the peninsula which leads to the Mormugao harbour.
		The main town of Vasco is well laid out pretty much in a straight line along parallel roads interlinked by small bylanes.
		Vasco also has a railway terminus for passenger trains to nearby areas outside Goa and more importantly a daily service which takes tourists to the magnificent Dudhsagar waterfalls near the state border.
	www.goatourism.org /Destinations/Towns/vasco.htm (740 words)

	vidas lusófonas (normais)
		Vasco da Gama in born in 1468, date unknown, presumably in Sines.
		Da Gama exalts the nobility, wealth and power of King Manuel I. The Zamorin is thinking about an alliance with this far away and powerful king.
		Vasco's men strip it of its cargo and twenty children aboard are taken to be properly raised as Christians.
	www.vidaslusofonas.pt /vasco_da_gama2.htm (3507 words)

	Vasco da Gama Biography (Explorer) — FactMonster.com
		Naval commander Vasco de Gama's 1497 expedition from Lisbon opened a route to India and led to Portugese dominance of the Eastern spice trade.
		Vasco da Gama - Gama, Vasco da Gama, Vasco da, c.1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, the first European to...
		Vasco Da Gama: Quest for the Spice Trade (In the Footsteps of Explorers) by Katharine Bailey
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/vascodagama.html (361 words)

	Gama, Vasco da
		Ibrahim, had been unfriendly to Cabral; da Gama threatened to burn Kilwa if the Amir did not submit to the Portuguese and swear loyalty to King Manuel, which he then did.
		Da Gama had married a lady of good family, Caterina de Ata’de--perhaps in 1500 after his return from his first voyage--and he then appears to have retired to the town of vora.
		An outstanding synthesis of the background of Vasco da Gama's achievements is found in John H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement, 1450-1650, 2nd ed.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/millennium/m3/tierney-dagama.html (1861 words)

	GOA'S PORT TOWN STAYS TO ITS NAME OF VASCO Dec '97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasco, once a quaint but well-planned colonial town famed for its fresh air and clean streets, and was at one stage was intended to have become the capital of Goa.
		Earlier, freedom fighters associations in Goa demanded that the town's name be changed away from that of the Portuguese explorer and navigator who landed on and later sacked the Kerala coast sometime in or after 1498 (rpt 1498).
		Giving their interpretation to history, MGP legislators argued that the town be renamed Sambhaji Nagar, as they argued that the Maratha ruler was the first to attempt to "liberate" this territory from Portuguese rule.
	www.goacom.com /news/news97/dec/vasco.html (506 words)

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