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What Did Portugal Learn from the Costly Conquest of Ceuta? - From Ceuta to the African Coast | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the summer of 1415, a kingdom of barely one million people assembled two hundred requisitioned ships to seize a North African port visible from its own coast. The Portuguese crown was confident that controlling Ceuta would redirect the wealth of the Sahara toward Lisbon. They captured the city in a single day, but they soon spent decades learning that merchants, unlike fortifications, could simply choose to go elsewhere. This episode examines the military campaign across the Strait of…
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