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When he was 21, Prince Henry, his brothers, and his father attacked the Moslem port of Ceutha in north Morocco. This attack ended in victory which inspired him to become an explorer.
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Prince Henry convinced Gil Eannes to try to go past Cape Bojador and he succeeded in 1434. Gil Eannes was the only one to survive out of 15 expiditions past Cape Bojador.
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Prince Henry sent Cadamosto on a navigation to reach the mouth of the Gambia River. Cadamosto succeeded in the exepedition.
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Prince Henry sent Cadamosto on a second exepedition to sail up the Gambia river to the Geba River.
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Prince Henry sent Diogo Gomes on an expedition to sail Cape Palmas. He died the year the expediton returned.
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Christopher Columbus made his first big voyage. He sailed from Portugal to Iceland in this voyage.
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King John Paul II sent Gama to Setubal to seize French ships for French raids against Portuguese ships.
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Columbus set sail with three ships. The ships names were Pinta'the Nina'and the Santa Maria.
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Christopher and his crew found land that they thought was Asia but instead they discovered the American continent.
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Vasco da Gama was sent on a exepedition to find a sea route to the East Indies
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Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.
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Gama reached the coast of Natal
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Balboa sails to the new world aboard Rodrigo de Bastida's ship
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Ferdinand decided to circumnavigate the world
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Balboa leads an expedition to the Ithmus of Panama in Columbia.
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Ferdinand sailed down the coast of South America to find a path across. He finally found one that he named the Magellan Strait, and he sailed through it.
