Bidspirit auction | NUNO Álvares Botelho: Capitão Geral

NUNO Álvares Botelho: Capitão Geral das Armadas de Alto Bordo e Governador da Índia. Lisboa. 1940. - NUNO Álvares Botelho: Capitão Geral das Armadas de Alto Bordo e Governador da Índia . Introdução por A. Botelho de Sousa, Contra-Almirante. Lisboa: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1940. 260, [2] pp.: il.; 230 mm. A biographical study dedicated to Nuno Álvares Botelho, nicknamed ”the Great, ” captain-general of the high-ship armada that Portugal sent to India in 1624 to fight the Dutch and English, victorious in the battles of Hormuz (1625) and Malacca (1629). Invested in 1629 with the government of India, with exceptional powers conferred upon him by the Senate and the people of Goa due to the vacancy of the office, he died in combat against the Dutch at Jambi the following year, a loss felt as a profound blow to Portuguese prestige in the East. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate