Paul, the portuguese were epic warriors, strategists and world traders (see the likes of Duarte Pacheco Pereira (battle of Cochin), Francisco de Almeida (the first battle of Diu that changed the course of world history) and the mighty Afonso de Albuquerque (conquest of Malacca). The world has never seen anything like these characters, they were men on a mission. They were always outnumbered (sometimes 1 to 100), as far way from homeland as they could be but you would never bet against them. The major legacy of the portuguese was the discovery of the new sea routes that created the global world we live in today. Portugal was a small nation with a small population so it does not have the glamour/propaganda machine of Spain, France, ottomans, USA or England. However, the Portuguese were the real deal, they changed the world (made it global, changed the religion map and changed the history of many countries like Japan).
this video is part of the "Ottoman series", which is slanted more in favor of their history. but the fact is, the Portuguese empire was the first in world history to simultaneously wage war on 3 different continents. for a nation of less than 2 million at that time, that's nothing short of extraordinary. the Portuguese empire was always prepared to fight. if diplomacy failed , ( which it usually did ) waging war was their default tactic. they're without question the most underrated and overlooked when discussing the major world empires.
Hell yeah! We are resilient, brave and proud people, but to be honest, our pride and our weak heads of state took a heavy toll in our history. Still, like the star ship Enterprise, we went where no one had gone before.
this video is part of the "Ottoman series", which is slanted more in favor of their history. but the fact is, the Portuguese empire was the first in world history to simultaneously wage war on 3 different continents. for a nation of less than 2 million at that time, that's nothing short of extraordinary. the Portuguese empire was always prepared to fight. if diplomacy failed , ( which it usually did ) waging war was their default tactic. they're without question the most underrated and overlooked when discussing the major world empires.
For some reason I have read a lot of English colonial history and don't seem to find it very interesting. Either a massive fleet takes over everything by brute force or they make a deal and take over land. However Spanish and Portuguese history seem more interesting. It's all about strategy and discoveries. They are often in disadvantage and it's interesting reading about interactions with asian countries. They are basically the ancient colonial empires. They discovered everything before England or France setting the grounds for a new era
The problem was, that portuguese at the start wanted to make commerce with many kingdoms and empires, the point many of those empires had rajahs and sultans that replaced previous ones due to Ottoman (Turcs), expansion, one of the mainest motives about portuguese having blessings from the Pope to get half of the known world, in tordesilhas Spain and Portugal divided the world once because they had political status for that, the navy of each were more numerous and better prepared for both naval battles and long term travells, when Bysantine empire fell, Transylvania, Wallachia, Bulgaria and Part of Hungary fell too, only on land Holy roman Empire, allied With Poland and Hungary had stopped The Turks, the portuguese could face the same turks alone because many factors, ill point it out: 1- Portuguese developed the first bronze canons that lasted mutch longer without self damage of powder explosions, ammunition same size but with thiner and being metal canons would do more pressure with better aim, so acurancy and range update to canons: 2- Caravels were the first but were the first ships to get side canons instead 3 canon font and 3 canon rear like all other countries, caravels also could sail against wind in zig-zag, 3- Canon and fire-arms rear reloading upgrade, that upgrade made fire-arms and cannon mutch faster reload, canon shot 6x faster than regular canons from other civilizations, in napoleonic wars Francs as Brits fought still frontal reloading canons the Portuguese reloaded on the rear 200 years earlier, When general Wellington came to Portugal after most of our army left with the king to Brasil to regroup and train more units, we Portuguese were left half of canon and mostly militia before british rienforcements came, the Frankish general fell with Spanish mercenaries, mostly facing Portuguese militia, but well equiped, only with a dragoon and a caçador (hunter) batalion 1 of each as elite and almost no regulars, when general Wellington came he said in his cronicles, that portuguese troops were brave and patriotic, but undisciplined, he didnt realized that regulars and most elite had gone with the king to Brasil, latter years portuguese gunsmiths developed british artilhary and made his old allies more effective, specially naval and siege warfare. 4-When portuguese gained huge tecnology advantage in start of discoveries, the castles architecture had to be upgraded aswell since ships could carry more and more potent canons sea side walls had to be rienforced.
@@bconni2 well diplomacy won with the rest of the europeans when Tordesilhas treaty was signed not only the kings of Portugal and Spain were present also the Pope and the other kings of Europe, since concerned the fate of christiandom, as you may well know the Portuguese needed economic strenght to supply the investments but the main objective was to weaken muslim control all over the world, of all europeans portuguese were the ones with better agreements even with wars most other euroean nations did even more conflict than cooperation, portuguese main objective was to perpetuate the First king of Portugal mission in battle of Ourique, when he suposly saw a vision of Jesus Christ offering victory, with the promise to the Portuguese spreading christianism all over the world, that is said in the chronicles, in the Discoveries Turks ( ottomans) were about to take the whole world, Moçambique India , had fallen centuries before, the royal family beheaded and little girls offered like nowdays to marriage to give islamic rulers a legit claim over those territories, locals suffered at the hands of the muslims and many saw the Portugueses as their way to get free locals and Portuguese took arms and defeatec turkish dominators often in disavantageous in numbers, Moçambique even without their royal family, local warlords asked the Portuguese to rule to protect Moçambique from the Jihad even today north of Moçambique is Conflictuous due to muslim fanatism, Tanzânea and Sudan had suffered the same fate as Moçambique and not got free, India was free with portuguese, Turks did same as the other nations to convert, the portuguese knew well islamic rule, since reconquista and why the will to erradicate islan in Discoveries, but needed economy to face a super power nation alone such was ottomans, so like them needed to control spices and slave trade most slaves were bought from Congo and Angola, local kings were at war with each other and muslim invaders, portuguese helped to get agreement not to atack one another and when muslim invaded any they would join forces, to have chance to survive sold defeated islamic fanatics and voodoo practicioners, as slaves to ports buying the best guns avayable, on that time, portuguese had mainly 3 strengths fortresses, firearms (specially artilhary ) 100 year front from the Spanish and 150 ahead from most europeans, only balanced with bohemians, and the last ship tecnologies and knoledge saved centuries the real richess from templars not money but books from ancient rome wich helped associating long period of time in peace explaining the advancements.
He only tells (talks) about the battle that suits more to is narrative or ottoman point of view! If you go to his channel you do not see any other Portuguese battle. Not the battle that changed the WORLD FOREVER and not even against the French! Battle of DIU where the Portuguese literally humiliated their coalition (so many against only 17 Portuguese boats lol), and that battle happened because of what they did to ALMEIDA'S son! Oh and he warned (send them a letter) them he was on his way there to revenge his son! Now tell me why is this battle didn't get a movie. If was an English or other battle, I'll bet they already had done it isn't it?! 😒 Edit. Sorry for the poor English, cheers. ✌️
@@sivispacemparabellum395 this as an better film plot that everything hollywood made in the last 50 years... A son that dies, and vengefull father... less man ratio 1 against 100... and he even wins... :D that is the problem... to much portuguese patriotism... and no english american... :D they make films for them, not for the others... now they are making black filmes... for the increase political power of blacks in america.
the Portuguese were always outnumbered, and they always came to fight. the "Reconquista" was a deep part of national identity. they were a warrior culture.
Paul, the portuguese were epic warriors, strategists and world traders (see the likes of Duarte Pacheco Pereira (battle of Cochin), Francisco de Almeida (the first battle of Diu that changed the course of world history) and the mighty Afonso de Albuquerque (conquest of Malacca). The world has never seen anything like these characters, they were men on a mission. They were always outnumbered (sometimes 1 to 100), as far way from homeland as they could be but you would never bet against them. The major legacy of the portuguese was the discovery of the new sea routes that created the global world we live in today. Portugal was a small nation with a small population so it does not have the glamour/propaganda machine of Spain, France, ottomans, USA or England. However, the Portuguese were the real deal, they changed the world (made it global, changed the religion map and changed the history of many countries like Japan).
Obrigado José. Tudo o que eu queria dizer :-). Parecias o Francisco de Almeida agora
after all we had the Templars (Order of Christ) in here for centuries, since they didn't vanish at all.
We still are the best warriors
this video is part of the "Ottoman series", which is slanted more in favor of their history. but the fact is, the Portuguese empire was the first in world history to simultaneously wage war on 3 different continents. for a nation of less than 2 million at that time, that's nothing short of extraordinary. the Portuguese empire was always prepared to fight. if diplomacy failed , ( which it usually did ) waging war was their default tactic. they're without question the most underrated and overlooked when discussing the major world empires.
btw there were never an Alfonso in Portugal...it's *AFONSO*
Hell yeah! We are resilient, brave and proud people, but to be honest, our pride and our weak heads of state took a heavy toll in our history. Still, like the star ship Enterprise, we went where no one had gone before.
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Portugal the underated empire
I love this history series Paul!
this video is part of the "Ottoman series", which is slanted more in favor of their history. but the fact is, the Portuguese empire was the first in world history to simultaneously wage war on 3 different continents. for a nation of less than 2 million at that time, that's nothing short of extraordinary. the Portuguese empire was always prepared to fight. if diplomacy failed , ( which it usually did ) waging war was their default tactic. they're without question the most underrated and overlooked when discussing the major world empires.
The Ottomans gained upperhand in the sea assalt due to ports having to fight both land and sea artilhary
13:00 their ships fire foward. Portuguese ships fire out the broadside.
For some reason I have read a lot of English colonial history and don't seem to find it very interesting. Either a massive fleet takes over everything by brute force or they make a deal and take over land. However Spanish and Portuguese history seem more interesting. It's all about strategy and discoveries. They are often in disadvantage and it's interesting reading about interactions with asian countries. They are basically the ancient colonial empires. They discovered everything before England or France setting the grounds for a new era
The problem was, that portuguese at the start wanted to make commerce with many kingdoms and empires, the point many of those empires had rajahs and sultans that replaced previous ones due to Ottoman (Turcs), expansion, one of the mainest motives about portuguese having blessings from the Pope to get half of the known world, in tordesilhas Spain and Portugal divided the world once because they had political status for that, the navy of each were more numerous and better prepared for both naval battles and long term travells, when Bysantine empire fell, Transylvania, Wallachia, Bulgaria and Part of Hungary fell too, only on land Holy roman Empire, allied With Poland and Hungary had stopped The Turks, the portuguese could face the same turks alone because many factors, ill point it out:
1- Portuguese developed the first bronze canons that lasted mutch longer without self damage of powder explosions, ammunition same size but with thiner and being metal canons would do more pressure with better aim, so acurancy and range update to canons:
2- Caravels were the first but were the first ships to get side canons instead 3 canon font and 3 canon rear like all other countries, caravels also could sail against wind in zig-zag,
3- Canon and fire-arms rear reloading upgrade, that upgrade made fire-arms and cannon mutch faster reload, canon shot 6x faster than regular canons from other civilizations, in napoleonic wars Francs as Brits fought still frontal reloading canons the Portuguese reloaded on the rear 200 years earlier, When general Wellington came to Portugal after most of our army left with the king to Brasil to regroup and train more units, we Portuguese were left half of canon and mostly militia before british rienforcements came, the Frankish general fell with Spanish mercenaries, mostly facing Portuguese militia, but well equiped, only with a dragoon and a caçador (hunter) batalion 1 of each as elite and almost no regulars, when general Wellington came he said in his cronicles, that portuguese troops were brave and patriotic, but undisciplined, he didnt realized that regulars and most elite had gone with the king to Brasil, latter years portuguese gunsmiths developed british artilhary and made his old allies more effective, specially naval and siege warfare.
4-When portuguese gained huge tecnology advantage in start of discoveries, the castles architecture had to be upgraded aswell since ships could carry more and more potent canons sea side walls had to be rienforced.
the Portuguese empire was always prepared to fight. if diplomacy failed , ( which it usually did ) waging war was their default tactic.
@@bconni2 well diplomacy won with the rest of the europeans when Tordesilhas treaty was signed not only the kings of Portugal and Spain were present also the Pope and the other kings of Europe, since concerned the fate of christiandom, as you may well know the Portuguese needed economic strenght to supply the investments but the main objective was to weaken muslim control all over the world, of all europeans portuguese were the ones with better agreements even with wars most other euroean nations did even more conflict than cooperation, portuguese main objective was to perpetuate the First king of Portugal mission in battle of Ourique, when he suposly saw a vision of Jesus Christ offering victory, with the promise to the Portuguese spreading christianism all over the world, that is said in the chronicles, in the Discoveries Turks ( ottomans) were about to take the whole world, Moçambique India , had fallen centuries before, the royal family beheaded and little girls offered like nowdays to marriage to give islamic rulers a legit claim over those territories, locals suffered at the hands of the muslims and many saw the Portugueses as their way to get free locals and Portuguese took arms and defeatec turkish dominators often in disavantageous in numbers, Moçambique even without their royal family, local warlords asked the Portuguese to rule to protect Moçambique from the Jihad even today north of Moçambique is Conflictuous due to muslim fanatism, Tanzânea and Sudan had suffered the same fate as Moçambique and not got free, India was free with portuguese, Turks did same as the other nations to convert, the portuguese knew well islamic rule, since reconquista and why the will to erradicate islan in Discoveries, but needed economy to face a super power nation alone such was ottomans, so like them needed to control spices and slave trade most slaves were bought from Congo and Angola, local kings were at war with each other and muslim invaders, portuguese helped to get agreement not to atack one another and when muslim invaded any they would join forces, to have chance to survive sold defeated islamic fanatics and voodoo practicioners, as slaves to ports buying the best guns avayable, on that time, portuguese had mainly 3 strengths fortresses, firearms (specially artilhary ) 100 year front from the Spanish and 150 ahead from most europeans, only balanced with bohemians, and the last ship tecnologies and knoledge saved centuries the real richess from templars not money but books from ancient rome wich helped associating long period of time in peace explaining the advancements.
Well I just searching about trip to diu and this ancient battle pop up😆😆
Check star forts and video on the pike and shot era
Batalla de Diu fue en 1509, no en 1538
Wrong. There was the Battle of Diu in 1509 and the Siege (battle) of Diu in 1538.
He only tells (talks) about the battle that suits more to is narrative or ottoman point of view! If you go to his channel you do not see any other Portuguese battle. Not the battle that changed the WORLD FOREVER and not even against the French!
Battle of DIU where the Portuguese literally humiliated their coalition (so many against only 17 Portuguese boats lol), and that battle happened because of what they did to ALMEIDA'S son! Oh and he warned (send them a letter) them he was on his way there to revenge his son!
Now tell me why is this battle didn't get a movie. If was an English or other battle, I'll bet they already had done it isn't it?! 😒
Edit. Sorry for the poor English, cheers. ✌️
@@sivispacemparabellum395 this as an better film plot that everything hollywood made in the last 50 years... A son that dies, and vengefull father... less man ratio 1 against 100... and he even wins... :D that is the problem... to much portuguese patriotism... and no english american... :D they make films for them, not for the others... now they are making black filmes... for the increase political power of blacks in america.
@@powervr Hope you do not mean that piece of shit they called "The Woman King". Piece of crap trying to make black slavers look good.
The civilians fought because they knew they would be enslaved if the otomans took Diu.
the Portuguese were always outnumbered, and they always came to fight. the "Reconquista" was a deep part of national identity. they were a warrior culture.
Can you react to king and generals Roman servile wars it's only a 3 part series
Please react to Genghis Khan demon dog of war
There never had 200 ships
Go study history before pretending to talk about it.
17 ships against 224 ships
17 ships Portugueses
They killed is son in Xau . The son of the Vice- King.
The guy gave you bad history informations
This is not the battle of Diu
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