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Portuguese sailors made traveled away from there homeland in search for new land
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Henry returned to Sagres and to launching expeditions in 1441 In that year Nuno Tristam reached Cape Blanco and the following year he arrived at the Bay of Arguim
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Portuguese sailors were exploring the west coast of Africa they reached the off shores of Cape Verde in 1455
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In 1477 Christopher Columbus sailed on a Portuguese ship from Galway to Lisbon he then found his brother and they began trading together
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In 1492 Christopher Columbus completed his sails across the Atlantic Ocean and landed in the new ‘world’.