Navigator (Dec 2008)

Reconectando o Império: mercês e interesses mercantis na força naval de Salvador de Sá que reconquistou Angola

  • Marcello José Gomes Loureiro

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 7
pp. 35 – 47

Abstract

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This article intends to demonstrate the motivations which caused the organization of the Portuguese Naval Fleet, which reconquered Angola in 1648. For such, the complex context wich influenced the insertion of Portugal in the international scenery is presented. Subsidiarily, the new historiography about the matter is presented.

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