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Henry the Navigator is born as third son of John I.
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Henry distinguished himself in a campaing in which the Portuguese captured the moroccan citadel of Ceuta on the African coast across the straits from Gibraltar.
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HE was in love with navigating so he opened his own school of it.
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After 50 years of his death, the navigational knowledge and drive for exploration gained under his direction to several historical voyages.