Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Epilogue: The Legacy of the Portuguese Empire (00:18:15)
In 1524 Vasco da Gama made his third and final voyage to India. This man who had discovered the sea passage to India, returned not as an explorer but as an administrator. He would oversea a massive tr...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 6: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf Campaigns (00:34:16)
We enter in the final years of Afonso de Albuquerque as he continues his master strategy to bring the Indian Ocean under Portuguese control. He heads west to subdue the Red Sea and the Persian gulf. I...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 5: A Dangerous Homecoming (00:23:13)
With Malacca captured, another part of Afonso de Albuquerque's great plan to conquor the Indian Ocean falls into place. With a King's ransom he returns to India - but his journey will be filled with d...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 4: The Capture of Malacca (00:26:16)
The fabled city of Malacca was the portal through which the trade treasures of the Indian and Pacific Oceans flowed. It had a formidable army and a determined sultan. Afonso de Albuquerque arrived in ...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 3: The Second Conquest of Goa (00:17:18)
Beaten but not destroyed, Afonso de Albuquerque escapes from his prized city of Goa. However, he returns in just a few months and brings the might of the Portugeuse Armada with him. Flash Point Histo...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 2 The First Conquest of Goa (00:21:46)
Afonso de Albuerque's great strategy for conquest of the Indian Ocean begins at Goa. His initial plan unfolds perfectly - but he quickly learns that its one thing to take a great city, but its another...
Age of Discovery - Afonso de Albuquerque - Part 1 (00:21:09)
Afonso de Albuerque is finally installed as the Governor of India, but his plan are quickly derailed. His cousin Fernando Coutinho, the Marshall of Portugal, arrives with a large fleet and has plans o...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 3 (00:25:45)
In the wake of his son's death, Fracnsico de Almeida takes the law into his own hands. His need for revenge culminates in the pivotal Battle of Diu in 1509. Flash Point History YouTube Channel: ht...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 2 (00:29:30)
The Mamluk Armada appears in the Indian Ocean! It is deployed against the son of the Viceroy, Lourenço de Almeida. However, the young Almeida is determined for redemption in his father's eyes for his ...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 1 (00:25:40)
With the battle of Cochin over, the Portuguese enter into a phase of conquest in 1505. This is spearheaded by the first Portuguese Viceroy, Francisco de Almeida. However his story is not just about a ...
Age of Discovery - Duarte Pacheco Pereira (00:28:09)
1504 The Zamorin of Calicut is on the warpath and about to hit the city of Cochin with a sledgehammer force of over 60,000 soldiers. The Portuguese have 150 men - but one very capable commander. The f...
Age of Discovery - Vasco Da Gama - Part 4 (00:16:18)
1503 The Portuguese Empire in India faces major head winds. Vasco da Gama underestimates his old rival, the Samudri Raja of Calicut, and nearly pays for it with his life. Yet despite Portuguese resili...
Age of Discovery - Vasco Da Gama - Part 3 (00:29:08)
1502 Vasco da Gama is placed in charge of the Fourth Portuguese Armada and returns to the Indian Ocean. In his last voyage he came as an explorer - this time he comes as a crusader and brings holy war...
Age of Discovery - Pedro Álvares Cabral (00:26:50)
Dec 1500 The Portuguese trading outpost in Calicut has been destroyed. In the night a vast mob attacked, razed it, and killed nearly everyone inside. Pedro Cabral orders his ships to bring their canon...
Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Part 2 (00:21:42)
August 1498 Vasco Da Gama makes his way north along the Malabar Coast of India. He is on the run. Negotiations have broken down with the King of Calicut - who has deployed a fleet to hunt down the Por...
Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Part 1 (00:23:47)
1498 - a Portuguese Fleet of four ships has travelled for nearly a year and now is in the middle of a vast ocean. It has covered a distance of 12,000 miles (half the circumfrence of the Earth). Its cr...
Age of Discovery - Bartolomeu Dias (00:18:29)
Its 1487 and Bartolomeu Dias has traveled further than any European. He takes a gamble, subjecting his fleet to the will of nature. For 30 days he and his men are adrift on the open ocean at the pity ...
Age of Discovery - Henry the Navigator (00:19:15)
We begin the new series in the Age of Discovery with Henry the Navigator. He was warrior, a prince, and a businessman with an eye for seeing opportunity. His exploits in terms of ship building, the ca...
Queen Isabella of Castile - Reconquista - All Parts - The Life of a Legend (02:42:21)
Combined all parts of the Reconquista: Isabella series into one long format. We look at the life of the Queen Isabella of Castile. To some a saint, to others a demon, to history a Legend. Flash Poi...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 6 - Epilogue (00:11:36)
The Reconquista is over and Spain is on the fast track to becoming a global superpower. But do the ends justify the means? We look back now and ask, was Isabella a Saint? Or was she a Demon? Flash ...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 5 - The Fall of Granada (00:29:13)
The grinding war in the Kingdom of Granda continues. However, its days are numbered. Infighting amongst the Nasrid cripple its offensive power and Ferdianand and Isabella are more determined than ever...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 4 - Holy War (00:31:30)
We now enter into the final stage of the Reconquista 1481 - The treaty that has held the unease peace between Castile and Nasrid Granada is broken. The Sultan Abu Al-Hasan takes advantage of Castilian...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 3 - Return of the Queen (00:26:05)
The Reconquista continues as Isabella becomes Queen! On Dec 13, 1474 Isabella crossed her own Rubicon - she staged a coup and became the Queen of Castile. No woman had sole power over the kingdom in ...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 2 - Composure (00:32:02)
The Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! Isabella's life as a young adult is filled with danger. There are many that would be happy to see her married off, placed in exil...
The Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! We begin with her early life. Isabella was born into a kingdom that was a far cry from its glory days. Improvished and on the bri...
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