📜 1532-1567 | The Portuguese in Brazil | Part III What you're seeing: Portugal claimed Brazil's coast, but French merchants kept returning for brazilwood. Around Guanabara Bay, Europeans fought alongside different Indigenous allies, and a new town took shape. Why were France and Portugal fighting? Portugal claimed the coast, but French merchants continued trading and building forts. In 1532, King João III planned captaincies, coastal grants to men who would pay for ships and settlers. What happ
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📜 1532-1567 | The Portuguese in Brazil | Part III What you're seeing: Portugal claimed Brazil's coast, but French merchants kept returning for brazilwood. Around Guanabara Bay, Europeans fought alongside different Indigenous allies, and a new town took shape. Why were France and Portugal fighting? Portugal claimed the coast, but French merchants continued trading and building forts. In 1532, King João III planned captaincies, coastal grants to men who would pay for ships and settlers. What happ
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