Filipe de Brito e Nicote
Filipe de Brito e Nicote | |
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| Occupation(s) | Adventurer, mercenary, governor |
Filipe de Brito e Nicote or
Biography
Born to a French father in Lisbon, Portugal, de Brito first traveled to Southeast Asia as a cabin boy.
He eventually served under
Returning to
In 1608, De Brito and his men, using elephants and forced labour,[3] removed the Dhammazedi Bell from the Shwedagon Pagoda and rolled it down Singuttara Hill to a raft on the Pazundaung Creek. The bell and raft were lashed to de Brito's flagship for the journey across the river to Syriam, to be melted down and made into cannon. The load proved too heavy, and at the confluence of the Bago and Yangon Rivers, off what is now known as Monkey Point, the raft broke up and the bell went to the bottom, taking de Brito's ship with it.[4]
In 1613, de Brito's Syriam was besieged by the Burmese forces of King Anaukpetlun. After the fall of the city in April 1613, de Brito was crucified and executed along with Natshinnaung. de Brito was executed by being impaled; it took him three days to die.[5] More than 400 Portuguese were taken as prisoners of war back to Ava.[1]: 190
References
- ^ ISBN 9747534584
- ^ Beveridge, Henry (1876). The district of Bákarganj; its history and statistics. London: Trübner & Co.
- ^ Aung Zaw (23 February 2018). "Chiming with History". The Irrawaddy. The Irrawaddy. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
- ^ "Myanmar's Largest Bell Underwater". Yangon, Myanmar: Myanmar's NET. 2007. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- ^ R. Findlay & K.H. O'Rourk, "Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium", (2007), Princeton University Press, p.196
External links
- Danvers, Frederick Charles, The Portuguese in India. London, 1966.
- Harvey, G. E., A History of Burma. n.p., 1967.
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