650th Anniversary of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2023
- To mark the 650th anniversary of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance this year (2023), Taylor’s have collaborated with @HistoryHit to produce a film that tells this remarkable story. This exclusive content is only available here (courtesy of History Hit) or on the History Hit channel. History Hit is an online streaming channel for history enthusiasts - www.historyhit.com - with a wide range of history films available.
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Portugal, obrigado por ser nosso amigo por tanto tempo. Cumprimentos, de um britânico.
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I hope Google translate didn't butcher that.
No worries. It’s perfectly translated 👍 thank you from a Portuguese lady
Thank you.
Credit to the English narrator’s passable pronunciation. He knows Portuguese pronunciation!
He really does. 👏👏👏
Indeed. It was pleasant to see him try and be largely successful in pronouncing the words with a Portuguese accent. Most just read Portuguese words with English phonemes and move on.
Yes he does and what's more, at least he does not give the Portuguese names their English translations like the Portuguese do with English names (and even then they get it wrong)!
I am sure that Mike Loades will be pleased to hear that his pronunciation is ''passable?''.
@@PortugalCarp-Whatever mistakes the Portuguese make with English names, it can’t be worse than the butchery do to English language by the Spanish.
I'm from the UK and have been incredibly privileged enough to have been to many parts of the world across all inhabited continents. My visit to Portugal was easily among my favourites. Bursting with culture and history and I can't remember coming across a people more welcoming and eager to chat or help :) Can't wait to go back sometime.
Hello freom portugal man, nice profile pic
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You’re very welcome ☺️
Well, I can say exactly the same regarding Yorkshire and Wales. Since 1975 I’m a regular visitor to the UK and that’s the two parts of the Kingdom that I love the most. Strangely they are also the target of the most jokes. Mainly because of Jealousy, I think.
Portugal & England Alliance 😍 the oldest in the world, still in force! 👌💖
"I like to think of myself as a blend... I was born British, but my heart is very much Portuguese" Lovely.
Ahahah, I was born Portuguese but my heart belongs to England 🏴
Proud to be British and proud to have Portuguese brothers 🇬🇧🇵🇹
LOS INGLESES SON SAJONES 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 LOS PORTUGUESES SON LATINOS SOY ARGENTINO 🇦🇷🇪🇦💪
Our oldest friends and feel sure most Brits like me had no idea. Thank you for an eye opening programme.
I don't think the world knows how incredible Portugal's history is
Que SS é esse?
@softcoredaily Hope not.
@@Znglgoogle Camaro SS...
I wish we had a holiday to commemorate the alliance.
That would be wonderful
Fantastic idea👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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This is a wonderful for keep the Anglo-Portuguese Friendship for 650th anniversary
This documentary is really good. Please spread it in both countries! 🇵🇹💪🇬🇧
literally millions of people died in the slave trade, how is that good?
Excellent.
I’m proud to be Portuguese and living in the UK 🇬🇧
And you are most welcome..our oldest friend
Here we got forgoten. No grants given, no easy for Portuguese to go live in England 😢
I winter in Lagos, lovely, friendly people, beautiful place. We are always made welcome, easy entry no problems or long cues at passport control or customs. We go every year. Absolutely love the place and the people.
@@Maria-sz1fc true, I had to leave after brexit and covid. Could have stayed through settlement but since I stayed outside for more than a year, I can't really live in the UK after 2025.
We love you all dearly ❤🇵🇹
Gostei muito do documentário. Muito bem feito. Eu também sou inglês mas estou a viver em Portugal há 6 anos. Em minha experiência, a grande maioria dos portugueses gostam dos ingleses.
Parabéns, o seu português está perfeito
May I reply in English. Yes we do find British people very polite and overall simple and humble. I did live in England twice so I have an edge so to speak. The proper English accent, oh music to my hears ....
Claro que sim.. :)
Thank you for this documentary. I’m Portuguese and feel proud watching this video .
Love Portugal
THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT ON THIS ALLIANCE !
Thanks for so much details.
Also the Mike's effort to spell the names in very good Portuguese !
I never will forget one Taylor's Vintage 1975 I tasted ! What a Wine !!!
The local Luxembourgish TV made a tiny report about "the longest aliance between 2 countries" and a lot, a lot of French didn't knew that the Portuguese were the first to beat the Napoleonic army with the help of a great English General (who later crushed Napoleon in Waterloo) !
LONG LIVE TO OUR ALLIANCE
Being raised in Brazil I found out that many sayings and folk wisdom have equal sentences in UK. The short documentary forgot to mention how important was Portugal when Napoleon blockaded traded with UK, effectively isolating it. Portugal continued trade and used Brazil to continue supplying goods to the UK, later on the King himself fled to Brazil with the escort of UK ships. This event was most critical to the 3 countries, especially Brazil, effectively from that point on it was no longer a colony.
And the price for being a former Portuguese colony Brazil paid for was debt serfdom to England.
@@josdesouzanão existe documento nenhum que diga que o Brasil pagou a dívida de Portugal a Inglaterra, mais uma história que foi inventada pela historiografia brasileira.
No tratado de paz e amizade de 1825 Brasil pagou á Inglaterra 4 milhões de libras esterlinas para mediar a independência.
Quem pagou a dívida de Portugal foi a França.
Yep, also Brazil was never invaded by England because of this alliance.
@micheldepaula8733 The king didn't fled.
It was a move anticipated since the XVI century but thinking about Spain, not France. It was a strategic withdrawal that allowed victory later.
Stating that 11000 people, all the kingdom services and most of its public servants, the treasury etc... just packed overnight to fled from 1500 famine French soldiers, looks implausible. It really was an incredibly well done and planned logistic operation. Also it wasn't the Royal Navy that escorted, they were a part of the escort, in fact the biggest vessels were Portuguese. There were 19 Portuguese warships and 30 merchant vessels and 13 British warships.
So, in my opinion, saying that the king fled, as Brazilians love to place it, it is at least lack of respect but it is also misinformation and a doggedness that only Brazilians can understand. It is also, why not say it, ignorant and provocative.
@@1vespa Então é só uma enorme coincidência que essa "mudança planejada" ocorreu um dia antes de os franceses conquistarem Lisboa?
Very enjoyable documentary. Visited Portugal several years ago - wonderful country rich in history and its people are very welcoming to travellers.
Great way to promote a product and create a strong brand. Much respect to Taylor's!
Whatever the drinking fashion you always have to have port at Christmas.
Proud of be part of this alliance,Portuguese side. God bless England
What an insanely longstanding alliance. Damn.
Amazing documentary, as a brazilian with portuguese origins and history lover, I have to say this is very well done.
An absolutely fascinating video on the treaty, and it goes a long way to explain the attitude of the Portuguese people to the English. I have been in love with Portugal since the first time I visited over twenty years ago. When people ask me why I can only reply "a country is made up of many things, wonderful scenery, great food and wine, abundant wildlife, culture, but with Portugal you have the people who are always welcoming and friendly". We can also recommend not only a tour of the Taylor & Fladgate wine lodge but lunch in the Barão Fladgate Restaurant so time your visit carefully, or reserve a table before you go.
I live 22 years in the castle neighborhood. That bridge are a modern one open for tourists and the castle are reconstructed in the 40's by Salazar for the Exposição do mundo Português. Portuguese world exhibition. The original castle are far different from the actual one.
Splendid documentary. The narrator is one of most good historian in the History Channel.
Great video and yes I was aware that Portugal has always been a great friend of England. Always enjoyed my visits to Portugal,very beautiful, great food and wine and of course the Port.
One important detail is that during the conquering of Lisbon and after D. Afonso Henriques gave the Muslims the right of passage and protection out of the City, the same English, and other crusaders who helped with the siege would attack those families who were fleeing the city with all their life's savings, which led D Afonso Henriques to declare that both in the neighborhoods of Mouraria and Alfama people would still be allowed to practice different religions under his protection.
It is worth noting that the people the City was taken from were ruled by an Arab elite but were mostly a Moçarabe majority *(ethnic Portuguese people who had converted to escape religious taxation)* and actual Christians and Jews who were all put to the sword during the city's sack by the mercenaries.
Our first king understood this very well, and so he did not set out to force convert anyone, many of the merchants that remained and pledged alliegance to him were Muslim and Jewish and they would contribute to Portugal's developing maritime endeavors.
I am from England, have always loved Portugal, the nation and the people, I raise a glass of maderia wine to 650 more years, of friendship and protection, Deus defenda Portugal
Parabéns á Tailor's Port pelo patrocinio.
Fascinating. I have a friend in the UK who is Portuguese but actually Anglo-Irish. His family owns vineyards and produces Port. They arrived during the time of the Napoleonic War and set up home.
I must visit Portugal.
And what is their Port wine name?
Extract from the book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel:
In 1592, for example, a squadron of six English warships off the coast of the Azores set up an ambush to attack Spanish merchant ships returning from the Caribbean. The huge galleon Madre de Deus, flying the Portuguese flag, sailing on its way back from India, fell into its clutches. Despite carrying 32 bronze cannons on board, the Madre de Deus lost the brief battle, and Portugal lost a
valuable cargo. Beneath the ship's deck were stowed chests full of gold and silver coins, pearls, diamonds, amber, musk, tapestries, pieces of calico and ebony. Spices were counted by the ton-more than four hundred tons of pepper, forty-five of cloves, thirty-five of cinnamon, and three tons each of a by-product of nutmeg and nutmeg itself. The Madre de Deus proved to be a prize worth half a million pounds sterling (about US$300 million today) - saw approximately half the amount deposited at the English Exchequer (England's Treasury) at that time.
NOTE: These are the English allies, even when they came to help us it was to plunder everything they could.
Excellent documentary really interesting as a Brit I spend my holidays in Portugal it’s friendly and a beautiful place to visit and more importantly the suns always shining
I'm 42 years old, and when i was a kid growing up in Portugal, British culture was great part of my life, an still is today.
Very interesting video 👍. I have an university license to teach history and I am very proud of this Portuguese English alliance ❤
I'm a very proud Portuguese citizen living and working in England for 24 years.
A great people, and a distinctly different character than their Spanish neighbours
@@jimbodimbo981 If they became your stewards.
From being a powerful nation of explorers and navigators, it becomes one of the nations in Europe with the most citizens exiled in other countries.
Currently they bleed to death without access to housing and with an unemployment rate that exceeds 40% among young people.
It has been good for the Portuguese to ally with the English... to disappear.
@@The0ldboy perhaps you need to lie down a bit
@@jimbodimbo981 Not at all, I know better than 90% of those who here think about the reality of the Portuguese.
Not only because I speak and write their language, not only because I have lived for years in Lisbon, but because I know history, which most Portuguese do not.
The reality is that the ideological and cultural subordination to Great Britain have made Portugal one of the poorest countries in the EU.
They should learn from the Irish who have known how to get away from that yoke and maintain their national identity as well as take advantage of opportunities to improve the lives of their citizens.
The truth hurts, but it is what it is.
@@The0ldboy it’s always the British’s fault apparently. If it weren’t for those British places like Zimbabwe, South Africa, India would be a land of plenty. I’m digging you man
Tangier was also gifted at the same time as Bombay/Mumbai, England struggle with constant raids and gave it back to Portugal.
acho fascinante que ninguém fale Português neste documentário.
Normal se foi feito por Britânicos para um publico Britânico.
Adorei o documentário mas isto de ser aliado... a parte inglesa podia ter a língua portuguesa como parte do programa curricular escolar como homenagem à aliança algo como saber a língua dos nossos mais velhos aliados but no way...
This has been the most complete documentary I have ever seen on the alliance between Portugal and England. Sadly the downside of this alliance was the British Ultimatum in 1890.
I really enjoyed watching this video. It was fantastic.
We've always looked at the British Ultimatum trough portuguese eyes. If we take a look at it with from british perspective what choice was there, two overlapping territorial projects and only one could be implemented. If you ask me, the portuguese were incautious in their ambitions, after all did anyone seeked to understand if the greattest power in world had similar plans? Anyway the republicans, searching to overthrow the monarchy, just made a huge fuss about it afterwards.
@@heldercosta515 hmm.. não. Nem faz sentido. Esta aliança só serviu os interesses dos ingleses. A única real ajuda que deram foi os 600 arqueiros para a batalha de aljubarrota. Fora isso, subjugaram Portugal sempre que tiveram a oportunidade disso. Nas invasões napoleónicas (que só aconteceram porque Portugal não acedeu ao bloquio continental imposto) eles só ajudaram porque eramos o único país que não lhes fechou os portos. Resultado? Assim que acabou, queriam ficar a administrar Lisboa e tiveram também de ser convidados a sair. Na união ibérica, em vez de ajudarem Portugal a reconquistar a independência, trataram de destruir parte da frota portuguesa e tentaram roubar algumas colónias no Brasil e nas Indias. O Ultimato Inglês foi a vergonha que se sabe.. e aliás, eles nem estavam propriamente interessados no território entre Angola e Moçambique, queriam apenas a linha de ferro a passar por lá, e em vez de tentar chegar a um acordo ou pelo menos dialogar, decidiram mandar um ultimato a um aliado que já tinham há uns bons séculos. Portanto não, não faz sentido desculpabilizar e achar que esta coisa foi e é uma aliança, Tudo isto serviu apenas para Inglaterra ter um vassalo informal, nada mais.
@@heldercosta515still a sad affair that the ultimatum inadvertently ended the monarchy (and a cooler flag imo) but agree
@@Michael-io6db This horrendous flag which I never liked does not reflect at all our great history nor our maritime DNA. It was imposed by the dreaded massons who shot our prince heir in 1910. This flag needs to be reversed soon and have our blue and white colours back!
@@Michael-io6db Couldn't agree more, this flag, these colors, have nothing to do with portuguese people. Our colors are blue and white.
¡Dos hermosos países!❣
forever portugal britain
Really enjoyed this documentary. However, I feel it missed the oppurtunity to mencion some of the least good moments of the alliance, like the "Mapa-Cor-de-Rosa affair" and the subsequent "British Ultimatum", but also the british aversion over Portugal joining WWI.
and the fact that some Portugeuse attacked English ships in the east indies in 1700's, which could have triggered a war, but England graciously ignored this
Mr. MK lives in Portugal😮......ho brother now I want him to make a doc about the importance of the Azores in WWII ......would love to see images of the spitfires that used the first (red dirt) strip in Santa Maria Island......and also images of the sea battles around the islands😊
FANTASTIC - Congratulations Mike Loads
My Gt x 3 Grandmother Mariah Da Silva of the Tagus Valley married my matriarchal grandfather Stephen Palmer of the 48th Northamptonshire Regt during the Peninsular War and resettled here in England in 1814 . A very formal and loving alliance . I am honoured to have Portuguese blood in my veins .
Great job by both History Hit and Taylor's. Compellingly watchable, brilliantly made little corner of history cemented not only by continued military alliance from the original 1300s date, but with the extant product from the era that I consider the king of sweet wines, Port. I'm a big continuity buff.
What a great video! Am already bringing some Taylor's along to the cottage country (love from the Great Lakes) and now I have a story to share. Consider me charmed & intent on visiting Portugal sooner rather than later
Very nice! Well documented.
I'm 🇵🇹 living in the 🇬🇧 and these bounds are definitely not felt here. But it's great to know that some ppl do appreciate this friendship between nations even if it wasn't all roses... lets not forget the pink map disagreement...it prompted the fall of the Portuguese Monarchy.
One of the best Port wines in the world. long live Taylor Port wine.
You mean British wine, the only thing the Portugas do is collect the grapes! Ass kissers, the Portugas are!
Chad King Dinis of Portugal really went up to England and went like "Would you be interested in a trade agreement with Portugal?"
What a meme lord.
I enjoyed and learnt much about the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, clearly explained.
Thank you for creating and sharing
Magnificent work, well done!
Thank you for the Great work.
Fascinating stuff Mike and very well presented.
"The 1890 British Ultimatum was an ultimatum by the British government delivered on 11 January 1890 to the Kingdom of Portugal. Portugal had attempted to claim a large area of land between its colonies of Mozambique and Angola including most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia and a large part of Malawi, which had been included in Portugal's "Rose-coloured Map".[1] The ultimatum forced the retreat of Portuguese military forces from areas which had been claimed by Portugal on the basis of historical discovery and recent exploration, but which the United Kingdom claimed on the basis of effective occupation."
Portugeuse ships broke the treaty in the 1700's when they attacked English ships without provacation; Portugal was lucky that England refrained from declaring war on them, England could have smashed every ship in the Portugeuse navy and invaded the country.
Going to Portugal next year.. 😊
Marvelous, thanks to all involved and particular Mike Loades 😀🍷
Thanks for this amazing documentary. ❤
Beautifully told 👏
Excellent and brilliant. Thank you
Very nice treated...
The British Ultimatum of 1890 against Portuguese pretensions in Africa provoked a social and political movement of patriotic exaltation and contestation of the Monarchy. It marked the end of the intended “pink map”, which would unite Angola and Mozambique, under the sovereignty of Portugal.
At the end of the 19th century, European countries disputed the African continent, an important source of raw materials and wealth.
The Berlin Conference, in 1884, brought together the main powers with interests in Africa, determining the effective occupation as a criterion for the possession of territories.
Portugal intensifies the carrying out of exploratory trips and military operations, aiming at the conquest of the territories between Angola and Mozambique, based on the “pink map” plan. Germany and France pledged not to intervene in that area, but the United Kingdom opposed the project, as it intended to carry out a rail link between South Africa and Cairo.
This is great but how about the ultimatum by Lord Salisbury in 1890 against the Portuguese government concerning the African colonies? This triggered an immense outrage of the Portuguese people. Our anthem is a poem based on that event and against England, and was seen as a betrayal of England! This is a huge event and should not have been missed!
Mr. Loades, this was very interesting and very well produced and an excellent presentation as always. Thank You fine Sir...
this is quite fascinating to say the least.
A long-standing relation forged by geography, mutual enemies and common interests. If England had in Portugal a closed door to spanish, and in a certain way, french ambitions, Portugal found in England a powerful friend and an assurance of it's independence. Two of the most important seafaring nations in history, if one paved the way, the other soon followed to become the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Two nations who achieved greatness in the sea, who found in it a way to escape their own peripheral territories, and by doing it forever changed the world.
A different interpretation: two nations who from the 17th century indulged in shameless exploitation of others, backed by actual and threatened violence from their navies.
@@michaelg3855 Since I actually have an History degree, I am pretty used to deflect revisionist views of the past, which were very common amongst left wing academics, let's say 15/20 years ago, as a result of Nouvelle Histoire, a french historic movement that for comercial and ideological purposes "democratized" History. Nowdays the public display of these type of views is just a sign of militant average ignorance, cause you can't make the history of certain nations brighter by bashing others. You're not the first that tries to accommodate personal present views to bygone eras, but of course you know that this is not about History, it's about you. It's about virtue signaling in social media, it's about you trying to correct past misbehaviour in an era that it's all too easy to do so. Average group behaviour, seen too often in the past, with not so great results if I may add. Now if you're such a justice warrior, you tell me what are you doing to correct not so "popular" present day issues. What are you doing to correct modern day slavery in Africa, or women role in african and islamic societies? What have you been doing to tackle India's caste system issue?
@@heldercosta515 My interpretation is based solely on the facts. I do not need a lecture on historiography, nor do I need your opinion on what my motives are. Your reply is what's called in academic circles (with which I am very familiar) an "ad hominem" attack: when rational argument fails try to impugn your interlocutor's motives and intelligence. Good bye.
@@michaelg3855 The reply was ad hominem because your interpretation is not based on facts, but instead based in a very biased and ideological contemporary perception of the past, therefore based in a personal opinion and view. Though History is open for debate, truth must not be. What was exploited by Portugal and Britain was a global trade market created by them, but also the spanish and the dutch, which in turn traded goods. The focus of an intellectually honest debate about the subject should above all understand, as harsh as it may seem, the concept of trading goods in the XVI and XVII centuries. After establishing the meaning of the concept then, one can ask: is it the same as today, has it evolved? If so, we're no longer talking about the same thing. Oversimplified manichaeist visions of History are intentionally created with a purpose. The purpose of this one is to downplay western Europe role in order to accommodate the new multicultural society we live in, but also, from a political point of view, to aggregate the "oppressed masses" against a particular group or nation. Nothing against multicultural societies or the rise of the "oppressed", but if you think that they should be built and raised at the expense of modern british or portuguese, their culture, or their past...you're wrong.
@@heldercosta515
Being a "lefty" I couldn't agree more with you and for those that are looking for an Historical "payback" I tell you this:
- Understanding your past will help you in your present to built a brighter future!!
well done
The Portuguese are very welcome to stay in Britain, a good people and the oldest European nation - state and the first and last Empire, we,British did the right thing in helping Portugal, especially during the Napoleonic Wars, against fractured Spain. May Portugal endure with honour, essense and well - deserved pride!.
Muito bem! Great 🙂
I love History and this was a nice recap of everything that I already knew. Thank you for this.
Nice vídeo!obrigado!❤🇵🇹
It was suspended during the 1580-1640, when there was a personal union between the Spanish and Portuguese kings with Spanish kings sitting on the Portuguese throne. Consequently the Spanish armada sailed from Lisbon in 1588 and included some Portuguese sailors. England continued to support Portuguese claimants to the throne.
I LOVE this video!
Fantástico
really good just love it .want more haha felt short ...im a history addict
respect to our england allies eyesterday today and forever
Still fuming that Geography now just ignored our whole friendship, viva Portugal my naval brothers
England : noone wants to be my friend😢
Portugal : il be your friend!
It is a wonderful alliance that I'm very proud of.
And especially happy that the french were defeated so many times.
Very good documentary, altought the numbers of the soldiers are a bit off the reallity. We can check those with cronics written by both sides, but if we decide to pick a neutral position we have an Italian writer that wrote about it.
Portugal was born in 1142.
In 1492, Queen Isabel I, the "Catholic", from Kingdom Castil, unified the other kingdoms and the caliphate, creating Spain.
I’m proud to be English and have you living in uk.
you mean *England*, I find it hard to believe they would go to *Scotland* since them being historically French allied... not Portuguese allied.
i love the british so much, i wanted to learn the british english but is to hard for me :( but im trying step by step
you should learn Anglo-English... its the actual English.
As a Portuguese and connoisseur of history, it was the biggest mistake of my ancestors.
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Why?
You’ll need to explain this statement better.
Always a good day when the algorithm recommends Mike Loades documentaries.
And there are some, who claim that the obscure man known to us as Christopher Columbus, was a galego noble man from Pontevedra. Whoever he really was, Columbus learned his secrets in Portugal, married and had son there, spoke and wrote the portuguese, offered his planned adventure first to the portuguese king (who refused), and returning from his first voyage (discovery of the americas) stopped first in Lisbon, telling the same king of Portugal who refused his services, what was accomplished, before anyone else.
One slight correction: He claimed to had discovered the Indies, but it's only after that we'll call it America, whatever the case he studied maths in Lisbon in the Rua das Escolas Gerais and was probably a spy working for the Portuguese crown, he lead the Spanish on a wild goose chase, and odds are the Portuguese knew of the existance of America and were content with letting the Spanish crown head that way, also the treaty of tordesilhas is a smoking gun that tells us exactly that.
He also married a Portuguese noblewoman from a little town called Cuba, coincidentally, odd that a commoner from Genova or whatever was given a title just like that isn't it?
@@lordcommandernox9197slight correction?! 😊
True
Typical nationalistic portuguese. You are all a joke. Catalan nationalist claim Columbus was catalan, galician nationalist claim Columbus was galician, and you claim Columbus was portuguese xDDD, I would pay to see you all in the same room... For castillians and the rest of the Iberian Peninsula (and the rest of the world, actually), Columbus was an italian cartographer married to a sevillian woman. As Einstein said once: "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Henry the navigator, grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, opened the transatlantic portuguese endeavours, from which ultimately the english under german rulers, will profit. When Lancaster joined the portuguese succession in 1385, Templar english secrets (remains) and the portuguese ultimate european Templar refuge (Portugal itself), joined forces to open new worlds - to their peoples.
Very interesting video! Vary little people know of Portugal's History! As an example Tea was a gift of the Portuguese crown to English crown!
Daughter of Portuguese father, I would love to find this documentary with Portuguese subtitles! Is there a chance?
Exelente
Probably why there is or was a pub on the Isle of Dogs called Porto
Tordesillas 1494 (treaty) altered Alcáçovas-Toledo 1429 (treaty), radically.
While not minimizing in any way the value of this "Oldest (indeed) alliance in the world", I was taught that the Alliance was 'signed' in 1386 - and indeed, have a brochure celebrating 'Portugal 600' - published in 1986. The brochure includes a message from the Ambassador of Portugal (to UK), specifically stating that the treaty was signed on 9 May 1386 by [representatives of] King Joâo I (of Portugal) and King Richard II (of England).
I was also taught how to subtract and this makes it 637 year anniversary.
Many inaccuracies in the description of the battle of aljubarrota.
The battle lasted about 30 to 45 minutes and started at 18:00 on a hot day of 14 August.
There were 2 waves of attack by the Castilian army that never had the 40,000 men in the field...15,000 of the infantry marching at the end of the column did not even reach the battlefield (see how the Castilian army marched and the disposition of the various forces).
The 2nd wave, Castilian cavalry with the support of siege weapons and bows managed to open a gap in the Portuguese vanguard, the battle was uncertain, and it was with the help of D João's rearguard and the closing of the gap in the vanguard that the slaughter of the most Castilian knights, were closed in a kind of square.
There were simultaneously 2 Castilian flanking attempts, promptly repelled by the portuguese rearguard, but for that they had to summarily execute all the French knights taken prisoner of the 1st wave.
Then there was the general rout of the army of Castile...to the south those who arrived at the battlefield, south side of the Portuguese army...and to the north those who were still marching towards the battlefield.
There was a lot to say about why and how this happened, why the Castela army had to try the attack even the situation wasnt the best, the failed attempts of understanding in the hours leading up to the clash, because everybody wanted to avoid the battle, including the Castela king, D Juan, but that is a story that does not fit here to expand.
John of Gaunt was one of those brilliant politicians with acts that are so important, that stay in history for longer than many kings.
Love you Portugal, beautiful country, wonderful people, great culture. Our longest friends, and a very valuable member of our family of nations today. You are always welcome to English shores 🤝✌
🫡Likewise beother
Awesome History lesson! I had no idea the Treaty was THAT OLD!!!
The one that always benefict England and prejudice Portugal
Exactly. 😢
Was Columbus in the knowledge of the Alcáçovas-Toledo treaty 1429? Because by this treaty the islands he discovered in 1492 were in the portuguese side of the line. After the first landing in San Salvador Bahamas, in his first western voyage Columbus turned SOUTH. Into the portuguese side of the Alcáçovas line. Why? Had he proceeded north or just in a straight western direction, he would have landed in Florida, in the spanish side of the line.
Dude Columbus were working for out King João II to fool the Spanish Kings, making them believe he reached India because at the time India was important, and doing that, and with the teatry signed, Portugal got the real India, which made the Spanish Royals pissed when they discovered we trick them. In the first project the line that separate Portugal and Spanish territory, our King demand more 370 miles west and when the new treaty came that line put Brazil on Portuguese territory. So we knew there were land all along, we just need to make Spain busy cause they were watching us all the time. So our King and Columbus made a plan.
Literally the textbook definition of overstaying the welcome.
Skipped the Pink Map british mindless greed that took down the Monarchy and directly led to the chaotic 1st Republic, indirectly to the 40 year following dictatorship :)
And the possible yet unstudied role of the portuguese Lisbon arsenals and ship / navigation tech in the creation of the british navy.
But hey, not a bad relationship, for the blunt winner takes all times that it lasted.
funny thing is... I am portuguese and I learned how to dance traditional scotish dances... that is how close the culture exchange is
Scotland is not England.
They would be closer to France not Portugal… 😂
There's no exchange between Portugal and Scotland whatsoever. Your own peculiar experiences mean nothing to the rest of us.
@@gabkoost well .. there are a few Scottish families living here for hundreds of years also working in the wine industry. I guess I am just imagining things, I will tell them they are just the product of my imagination 😂
@@lumitic774 like I said, the fact that your personal microscopic experience exists, it doesn't mean a thing in the grand scheme of things. You suggesting close cultural exchange is pure lunacy and fantasy. Imagine being able to say "close cultural exchange" and "there are a few families" in the same argument. Smh. You should be a bit more humble. Your life doesn't describe the entire panorama.
@@gabkoost sorry, you are confusing me with someone who cares about your arguments.