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- Gor¨¦e Island in the East Atlantic Ocean. Gor¨¦e Island is very close to the West African continent. It has always been a major stronghold for European colonization. As early as one or two hundred years ago, Europeans established a colonial settlement on Gor¨¦e Island. , designed to facilitate travel between West Africa and Europe.
The first people to arrive here were the Portuguese. They used some goods shipped from Europe to trade with the chiefs of the Kunlun slave tribe in East Africa in exchange for slaves and gold in their hands.
Relying on this transaction, the Portuguese were once prosperous and made great profits, which greatly stimulated the development of Portuguese navigation and laid the foundation for later opening up the Eastern Route.
Later, as the slave trade became popular in the Mediterranean and the desire for gold, the Spanish, Ingland, French, and Dutch also came to East Africa one after another.
However, among them, Spain is the most powerful competitor, with many colonial strongholds in East Africa, while the English and French exist more as pirates, specializing in plundering Portuguese and Spanish merchant ships.
These inverted the contradictions between Portugal and Spain. In order to compete for colonies, markets and plunder wealth, the two countries fought a long-term war, and the contradictions became increasingly acute.
Later, Pope Alexander VI came forward to mediate and came up with a papal meridian, which temporarily alleviated the conflicts between them.
But later, with the strong rise of the Ming Empire, which relied on powerful force to monopolize the Golden Continent, Spain was unable to expand in the west, and the Papal Meridian naturally lost its significance.
At the same time, due to the problem of piracy, the conflicts between Spain and England, France, and Portugal became more and more profound, and eventually two wars broke out in succession.
Spain¡¯s two wars with the Three Kingdoms finally won with the intervention of the Ming Empire.
Therefore, Spain acquired a large number of colonies and colonies that were originally owned by Portugal in West Africa from Portugal, including Gor¨¦e Island.
The area of ??Gorei Island is not large, it can even be said to be very small, but because it has been in operation for a long time, the infrastructure on it is relatively complete, including forts, fortresses, port terminals, churches, etc., as well as a prison specifically used to hold Kunlun slaves. The slave room had become Spain's most important colonial stronghold and transit point in West Africa.
At this moment, there are dozens of warships moored at Gorei Island's not-so-large port, filling the small port and wharf.
A large number of sailors who had just been transferred from Spain were drinking and playing in the taverns on the island, enjoying the coolness before the war.
On the battleship ¡®San Salvador¡¯, the legendary Spanish general Duke Colste was carefully studying the situation in West Africa, frowning, thinking about how to attack Sao Tome Island.
Si minus 75zw.com Si. The Duke of Corste, one of Spain's earliest overseas colonists, once carried out colonial activities in Golden Continent. Later, after Golden Continent was occupied by the Ming people, he specialized in trade with the Ming people.
By reselling silk, porcelain, spices and other goods from the East, he became one of the richest people in Spain in just a few years.
牺如 kanzongyi.cc 牺如。 Later, Spain, England, France and Portugal broke out successively During the two wars, Duke Corste led the Spanish maritime fleet and the Ming Empire fleet to sweep across the maritime forces of the three countries. He made great military exploits and was eventually named a Duke.
Back and forth, he participated in more than a dozen naval battles with Portugal, France, and England. Later, he accompanied the Ming Dynasty to attack the Ottoman Empire and bombarded Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
In the century-old war between the European Allied Forces and the Ottoman Empire in Vienna that ended last year, the Duke of Corster and the Duke of Almeida jointly led the powerful Spanish army to participate in this cruel war and finally won.
It can be said that the experience of Duke Colster is absolutely in line with the word legend, and it is also absolutely in line with the Western world's perception of aristocrats.
Being born into a noble family is called noble birth.
Dare to go overseas and fight, this is called having the pioneering spirit of a knight, and also gained huge wealth. Rich people are real nobles, and nobles without money are called down-and-out nobles.
When the country was in trouble, he was a true knight again, picking up the sword in his hand to defend the interests of the great Kingdom of Spain, and finally commanding the army to defend Christendom and the faith.
This kind of life experience is exactly what everyone in Europe dreams of.
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"I am worried that I have no excuse to capture Sao Tome Island. Since you Portuguese people do not follow the rules first, then don't blame us Spaniards for not following moral principles."牺如 tia& #110laixsw.com 牺如
"I will be a mantis stalking the cicada and an oriole behind me. As soon as you capture Sao Tome Island, I will lead my men to defeat it again. In this way, if the Japanese want to take it back, we will not snatch it from you. , but snatched it from the Portuguese.¡±
Thinking of this, Kolster couldn't help but laugh.
The geographical location of Sao Tome Island is really great. It is in the Gulf of Guinea. Controlling Sao Tome Island will be very helpful for colonizing the vast area near the Gulf of Guinea. Mi He Mi
Spain has been coveting this island, but has been unable to find the opportunity or excuse to take action. Now it finally has the opportunity
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