Lourenço de Almeida
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| Born | c. 1480 Explorer, military commander |
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Lourenço de Almeida (c. 1480 – March 1508)[1] was a Portuguese explorer and military commander.
He was born in
Order of Christ
.
He made the first Portuguese voyage to Ceylon in 1505 and established a settlement there,[2] thus permitting the expansion of the Portuguese Empire in Asia.
He defeated the fleet of the Zamorin at the Battle of Cannanore in 1506. Two years later however, he died in a naval action off Chaul,[3] in India, at the Battle of Chaul.
See also
- Portuguese India
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Gujarati-Portuguese conflicts
- First Luso-Malabarese War
References
- ^ Lourenço de Almeida at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Almeida, Lorenzo de". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1 AA–ANS. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 356.
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