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One of the members of the first expedition Vasco da Gama left notes about this journey, which were translated into French and published in the series "Former and Modern Travelers" (1855).
In the same year, Vasco da Gama set off on his third and last trip to India, where he soon died in Cochin. In 1524 the king appointed him viceroy of India. Returning to Portugal in 1503, Vasco da Gama began to develop a plan for the further capture of India. This time Vasco da Gama turned the flourishing and populous Calicut into a heap of ruins and built a fortress in Cochin, and also founded several trading posts on the east coast of Africa and on the Malabar coast of India. In 1502 Vasco da Gama, having received the rank of admiral, went to India at the head of a fleet of 20 ships with a detachment of infantry and cannons. Immediately after the return of Vasco da Gama to Portugal, the government equipped a new expedition to India, under the command of Pedro Alvaris Cabral. The opening of the sea route from Europe to India and the establishment of direct trade relations with it is, after the discovery of America by Columbus, the most important geographical discovery that radically influenced the movement of trade routes and centers. Of the 168 people who went with him to India, only 55 returned, the rest died. December 10, 1498, loading his ships with spices, Vasco da Gama sailed on the return journey and in September 1499, after a two-year voyage, returned to Lisbon. Despite the clearly hostile attitude of the Arab merchants-sailors, who felt the danger of the appearance of Europeans here, Vasco da Gama managed to establish diplomatic and trade relations with them. On May 20, 1498, the squadron arrived at the Malabar coast, near the city of Calicut, which was at that time the center of Indo-Arab trade. Ibn-Majid, under whose leadership he safely crossed the Indian Ocean.
Moving north along the east coast of Africa, the expedition found the trading harbors of the Arabs in one of them - Malindi - Vasco da Gama took an experienced pilot, the Arab A. In November 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean. On July 8, 1497, a squadron of 4 ships under the command of Vasco da Gama left Lisbon. This task was carried out by Vasco da Gama. Thus, the task was already half-solved, all that remained was to find a road across the Indian Ocean. In 1486 Bartolomeu Dias reached the southern tip of Africa and discovered the Cape of Good Hope (Cape of Tempests). African gold and slave negroes, which the Portuguese began to trade in 1442, served as an incentive on these expeditions as they found their way to India. As early as 1415 (after the capture of the Arab fortress of Ceuta), the Portuguese undertook expeditions along the coast of Africa in order to discover this route.
They were given the honour of a final resting place amongst kings.Vasco da Gama (1469 - December 24, 1524) - Portuguese navigator who opened the sea route to India. Vasco da Gama (on the left-hand side) and Luís de Camões (on the right-hand side) were the two most important representatives of this epic period in Portuguese history. Their tombs, made by the sculptor Costa Mota are now in the lower choir of the Monastery's church. In 1880 the remains of Vasco da Gama and the poet, Luís de Camões, were transferred to the Jerónimos Monastery. Through their daring and fortitude, Vasco da Gama and his crew overcame the fury of the heavens, seas and land to write a new page in the history of the world.ĭa Gama's remains were brought from India to the monastery of Nossa Senhora das Relíquias near the town of Vidigueira, where they remained for three centuries. The chronicles of this time tell us that Vasco da Gama was "of medium stature, of knightly genius, daring for any grand or risky achievement, rough when giving his orders, strong enough to be feared in any dispute, hard working and inflexible in his punishment on behalf of justice". His older brother was Paulo da Gama, who travelled with Vasco on the voyage to India of 1497-1499 and died almost at the end of the return journey at Terceira Island in the Azores. He was the second son of Estêvão da Gama. Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, probably in 1468, and died in India in December 1524, only three months into his term as viceroy of Portuguese India.
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