Age of Sail - Ships from the 15th Cent. onwards

[Lusitani]

The Nau Princípe Real (its a ship of the line , but they were still called naus) arriving at Rio de Janeiro in 1808 with the portuguese Royal familyt hat had to leave Portugal due to that little annoying corsican man, whose troops had invaded Portugal. This elevated the colony of Brazil to the status of kingdom...which eventually led to its independence in 1822 when the portuguese court's wanted it to go back to colony status(duh!).
The ship on the left side is part of the british escort the ones on the right side are portuguese.




HMS Victory



French frigate


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