He soon added a sixth ship, Mary ( formerly Santa Maria ), a Portuguese merchant ship that had been captured off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands.

It was therefore natural for Portugal to lay claim to this region, soon to be known as Portuguese Guinea, when the European scramble for Africa began in the 1880s.

This occupation of the Iberian peninsula fueled local nationalism, and soon the Spanish and Portuguese fought the French using guerilla tactics, defeating the French forces at the Battle of Bailén ( June and July 1808 ).

The Portuguese soon set up trading posts in Goa, Daman, Diu and Bombay.

These explorations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were soon followed by France, England and the Netherlands, who explored the Portuguese and Spanish trade routes into the Pacific Ocean, reaching Australia in 1606 and New Zealand in 1642.

The Portuguese and Spanish soon gave up regularly calling at the island, partly because they used ports along the West African coast, but also because of attacks on their shipping, desecration to their chapel and images, destruction of their livestock and destruction of plantations by Dutch and English sailors.

The rich volcanic soils proved well suited to the new cash crop industry, and soon extensive plantations ( roças ), owned by Portuguese companies or absentee landlords, occupied almost all of the good farmland.

However, further steps were taken that would soon expand the Portuguese Empire.

Japan, accidentally reached by three Portuguese traders in 1542, soon attracted large numbers of merchants and missionaries.

In 1433 Cape Bojador was rounded ; in 1434 the first consignment of slaves was brought to Lisbon ; and slave trading soon became the most profitable branch of Portuguese commerce, until India was reached.

The Portuguese became the first known Europeans to visit the port of Mombasa but were met with hostility and soon departed.

The spice trade would prove to be a major asset to the Portuguese royal treasury, and other consequences soon followed.

The Portuguese were the first to engage in the New World slave trade, and others soon followed.

The spice trade soon revived but the Portuguese would not be able to fully monopolize nor disrupt this trade.

The Portuguese soon brought slaves from the West African coast.

The Portuguese had not taken to plantation work and soon moved into other parts of the economy, especially retail business, where they became competitors with the new Afro-Guyanese middle class.

Like their Portuguese predecessors, the Chinese forsook the plantations for the retail trades and soon became assimilated into Guianese society.

On the other hand, as in the Portuguese colonies in Africa, people of mixed Portuguese and African ancestry soon came to constitute a large segment of the population.

In China, Macau was offered to the Portuguese, and soon Portugal controlled major trade routes in the area.

Later in the 16th century Portuguese traders introduced it to the west and soon both men and women throughout the continent adopted it.

) Although de Andrade's mission was initially a success that allowed a Portuguese embassy to proceed all the way to Beijing, relations were soon spoiled by culminating events that led to an extremely negative impression of the Portuguese in China.

However, there were no official reports of Simão's abuses, even though he stayed until September 1520 ; yet rumors of his behavior ( which became associated with all Portuguese ) no doubt reached as far as the court of Beijing, which would soon condemn the Portuguese for this and other reasons.

The neighbouring kingdom considered that the newly acquired lands of the Algarve should be Castilian, not Portuguese, which led to a series of wars between the two kingdoms.

While the Mughals had acquired firearms via the Ottoman Empire, Bahadur's Gujurat had acquired them through a series of contracts drawn up with the Portuguese, allowing the Portuguese to establish a strategic foothold in north western India.

In 1639 it acquired Madras on the east coast of India, where it quickly surpassed Portuguese Goa as the principal European trading centre on the Indian Subcontinent.

Among the survivors was Aleixo García, a Portuguese adventurer who had acquired a working knowledge of the Guaraní language.

The treaty was chiefly valuable to the Portuguese as a recognition of the prestige they had acquired.

His career advanced further when in 1668 Churchill sailed for the North African outpost of Tangier, recently acquired as part of the dowry of Charles II's Portuguese wife, Catherine of Braganza.

In 1970, Polydor acquired the Hong Kong-based Diamond Records which was owned and founded by the local Portuguese merchant Ren da Silva in the late 1950s.

In his education and travels he acquired some knowledge of " High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca "; he later states that he " understood ( Portuguese ) very well ".

In 1971 the Portuguese government intervened and acquired the islands, converting them into a nature reserve.

who had acquired it when marrying a Portuguese princess a few years before.

The Japanese started to manufacture the Portuguese acquired matchlocks and the use of these firearms in warfare caused the gradual decline in the use of the centuries old lamellar armour that the samurai were known for ; the Japanese armour makers started to use solid iron plates in their armour designs which were based on European armours, and eventually plate armour became the standard for samurai warriors.

The Portuguese acquired several territories from the Sultans of Gujarat: Daman ( occupied 1531, formally ceded 1539 ); Salsette, Bombay, and Baçaim ( occupied 1534 ); and Diu ( ceded 1535 ).

For almost an entire year they had now lived off the land, but mainly with provisions captured from the British and Portuguese ; they had replaced their old rifles with new equipment and acquired machine guns and mortars after capturing Namakura ( Nhamacurra in modern Mozambique ) in July, 1918.

Having originated in 1962 as the independent Social Science Research Group ( GIS ), founded by Adérito Sedas Nunes, the ICS became an autonomous institute of the University of Lisbon in 1982 and acquired the status of associated state laboratory in 2002, an achievement that puts it on a par with other Portuguese institutions of excellence.

The great popularity acquired, notwithstanding, by poetry so metaphysical and egotistic is a testimony to the artistic instinct of the Portuguese.

A voyage to New Zealand was aborted and when she put in to Lisbon she was acquired by a Portuguese consortium headed by Luis Lobato.

Magellan acquired him as a slave, described in Magellan's document " Last Will ", at Malacca, most probably at the early stages of the siege by the Portuguese in 1511.

In the Treaty of Versailles, the Portuguese acquired the territory of Kionga from what was once German East Africa.

When former teammate Hélder Postiga was sold to English side Tottenham Hotspur in the 2003 – 04 season, Porto finally acquired McCarthy for a sum of € 7. 856 million, ( later re-sold part of the rights to GestiFute and First Portuguese Football Players Fund.

We first hear of him ( before 1445 ) as a captive of the Barbary Moors in the western Mediterranean ; while among these he acquired a knowledge of Arabic, and probably conceived the design of exploration in the interior of the continent whose coasts the Portuguese were now unveiling.

In 1978, the Mexican group sold all its shares and the Spanish firm operates independently The Portuguese and Spanish Bimbo were acquired by Sara Lee in 2001 Many still refer to the bread as " pan bimbo ".