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Prince Henry the Navigator, who had participated …

Years: 1396 - 1539
Prince Henry the Navigator, who had participated in the conquest of Ceuta as an armed knight, settles at Sagres on the extreme end of Cape St. Vincent, where in 1418 he founds a naval school.

He continues to direct Portugal's early maritime activity.

As the master of the Order of Christ, Prince Henry is able to draw on the vast resources of this group to equip ships and pay the expenses of the early maritime expeditions.

Prince Henry is motivated by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, seeing the voyages as a continuation of the crusades against the Muslims and the conversion of new peoples to Christianity, as well as by the desire to open a sea route to India.

Shortly after the school is established, two of Prince Henry's captains discover the island of Porto Santo, and the following year the Madeira Islands are discovered.

In 1427 Diogo de Silves, sailing west, discovers the Azores archipelago, also uninhabited.

Both Madeira and Porto Santo are colonized immediately and divided into captaincies.

These are distributed to Prince Henry's captains, who in turn have the power to distribute land to settlers according to the Law of the Sesmarias.

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Southwest Europe (1396 - 1539)
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