Duarte Pereira - Part 2 - Age of Discovery

So again - an amazing battle. Wanted to break it up into two videos as time was a constraint and in an attempt to spread it wider over the algorithm. I'll combine these two videos into one for my 'Art of War' series as well. In the mean time - enjoy! Don't forget to share on social!

I am Angolan. I have a Portuguese surname and I always wondered about our history with Portugal, my father always told me that when Angola was a part of Portugal, life was much better than it is here now. I wanted to know more about Portugal and this channel taught me so much about the Portuguese Empire. Its weird because I feel very proud of the history as if it is my own. I hope others feel this way too. Thank you for this channel for sharing this in so much detail. I hope my Portuguese brothers will also feel proud. Yes it was a rough history with some questionable actions, but overall one cannot deny how fascinating it was for brave men to travel so far into far off lands in search of adventure and fortune. A part of all of us longs for such glory. 🇦🇴🇵🇹❤

“Lord, don’t make me pay for my sins just yet!” What a great quote!

Im portuguese and this war never thought in school, thank you so much, your videos are amazing, viva Portugal

Duarte Pacheco Pereira is the greatest hero that we the Portuguese never really knew 🥹

Another amazing story about this Portuguese hero who with his intelligence and courage managed the impossible to defeat a huge army with a few men... it's a shame, however, that instead of being a national hero for Portugal, he had an unfulfilling end and he died alone and forgotten as the same has happened here in Greece where the heroes of the revolutions of 1821 against the Turks fought for the homeland but only got contempt from the Greek state and many died forgotten and poor!!!!!! hello from Greece and I am waiting for the continuation of the Portuguese story.

I had a dinner with some friends in a few minutes .. I just told them we have to reschedule plus one hour just to watch both Duarte Pacheco Pereira' videos first

Imagine being a Zamorin’s soldier charging in knee deep water fearfull because your comrades told stories of the previous attacks 3 weeks prior and how a few hundred enemies massacred your army… Then it was your turn to charge… The terror must have been terrible. Thanks for creating such a tense and wonderful storytelling

Thanks you for showing us Duarte Pacheco Pereira and his contributions to the Portuguese!

As a proud Portuguese person, I am very grateful to you for the way you tell our story, which makes us so proud. Please continue the good work you have been doing. Obrigado.

An untold military genius Pereira. Thank you for these videos. You are great!

This was a bit emotional. Always felt that Duarte Pacheco Pereira was deeply, unjustly mistreated by the court and by history. This was a man of the highest caliber. The type of friend that you would take to a mortal place or to a suicidal war, and also the type of person that you'd gladly spend time with absorbing his vast knowledge and vision over a glass of Portuguese red wine. Thank you for making him justice. And thank you to promote this extraordinary warrior and Renaissance man to a vast audience. Again: thank you. What a trinity: Pereira, Almeida and Albuquerque. Regardless of the epoch, circumstances or geography, they would be military geniuses of the first order, the cream of the cream. Intelligent, resourceful, dynamic, analytical, great leaders, incorruptible, visionaries, cultured and ruthless. If you know their story, and you compare them to other revered military figureheads from other countries, you cannot deny such assumption. The intro with Camões' words was also a touch of class. All the very best

Once again, we are enthralled by the tale of this Portuguese warrior who, despite facing an overwhelming enemy force, triumphed with a small band of brave men. It's unfortunate that his life didn't turn out the way he had hoped. Like in Greece, where the revolutionaries who fought against the Turks in 1821 were met with contempt by the state and left destitute and forgotten, he should have been a national hero for Portugal. Greets from Greece! I can't wait for the Portuguese story to continue.

It is a great honor to be a descendant of this colossus of a man. 🇧🇷🇵🇹

I'm Portuguese and living in Australia, I did most of my school in Portugal but coming to another country ruined my education so I lacked of Portuguese history ,thanks for the lessons :)

The Age of Discovery is one of my biggest blindspots in terms of World History, thank you for this.

Bravo! Muito obrigado por todo o teu trabalho! Viva Portugal!!!

This series is genius. That this is true is even more incredible. Never met a Portuguese Age of Discovery Captain before, but I would recognise him miles away. Its hard to move that quickly if your balls are that big..............

Portugal has been fighting for more than two thousand years with excepcional success the most powerful armies in the world. Since Viriathus, the Lusithans and the Celts Bragaerae who defeated the Romans for more than 200 years, when France was all conquered in just 10 years. Even the great ancient writer Strabo wrote: - "And yet the country north of the Tagus, Lusitania, is the greatest of the Iberian nations, and is the nation against which the Romans waged war for the longest times". Portugal fought all kind of invaders and expelled the most powerful army in the world of that time, the Arabs, much before the Spanish and beated them in astonishing battles of few Portuguese against much superior armies. Even before the region became called Portugal, the people and the region already had the same soul. When the Otomans already were in the doors of Viena and entering in Hungary, the Portuguese defeated them in the Indic ocean. Without that, maybe the Europeans could be speaking Turk nowadays. Portugal defeated pirates, Berberes, Indians, Chinese pirates, Mamelucs and many other forces, fighting alone, when Europeans even thought the world was just what their eyes could see. Portugal defeated the Dutch and the French in many wars for Brazil, even fought and defeated the Germans alone in wars for Africa, destroying the German imperial dream of Deutsch Mittelafrika. Even the British were defeated when they tried to make Portugal a protectorate, during a short period of the Spanish Habsburg regency. Castile was defeated in too many battles and Napoleon was defeated in his 3 attempts to conquer Portugal. The Spanish famous prime minister Manuel de Godoy wrote in his memories: - French Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762): - All Portuguese, in accordance with the fundamental laws of the country, were soldiers and defenders of the kingdom until they were 60 years old... thrown into hardships, on heights, in ravines... they fought a guerrilla war, causing many more losses to the enemy than regular (Anglo-Portuguese) troops. The war of positions, marches and counter-marches, imposed by the Count of Lipa, in which we suffered countless losses, was supported mainly by the armed peasantry. Portugal had the longest global empire in human history and yet, some call this old nation weak and irrelevant. However, there was a man that had such an extraordinary respect for the Portuguese, that he demanded his king to praise the Portuguese, his name was Wellington and he was an excellent judge of value!

This is pure art! Beautiful video! As a Portuguese myself I am baffled by the quality of the content and happy to be learning new things about the history of my country!