 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 322 pages
...mortal blow, from which they have never recovered. These were th« discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The former put Spain in possession of immense treasures; which, being gradually diffused through all parts... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 pages
...Portuguese, excited by what had been done by Columbus, undertook a voyage, with a view of finding a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The command of this expedition was given to Vasco de Gama, who set sail from Lisbon on the . -p Qth of... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 374 pages
...feelings and his better judgment. . _ In the second year of his reign, Di ' ?" Gama discovered the passage to the '. East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The enterprising spirit of the Portuguese, first roused into action by prince Henry, as already noticed,... | |
 | CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B - 1804 - 586 pages
...collections of paintings and statuary. When the course of trade was changed by the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the Italian merchants i / » were deprived of their sources of wealth: and those nobles whose ancestors... | |
 | 1804 - 352 pages
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 | Alexander Annesley - 1808 - 308 pages
...manufactures began to increase, though by slow degrees, till by the discovery of America, and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the ancient channels of commerce, and the projects and views of commercial men became completely changed.... | |
 | Charles Ganilh - 1812 - 520 pages
...league left the world an honourable remembrance consoling to humanity. The discovery of America and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the abundance of the precious metals which it caused to circulate in Europe, the general comforts, which... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
...1798.i GAMA (VASCO, or VASQUEZ DI), an illustrious Portuguese, is immortalized by his discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The maritime town of Sines in Portugal was the place of his hirth, his family was good, but not noble,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...1798.1 GAMA (VASCO, or VASQUEZ DI), an illustrious Portugueze, is immortalized by his discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The maritime town of Sines in Portugal was the place of his birtb, . his family was good, but not noble,... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1820 - 286 pages
...It is remarkable that the discovery of the western world should have happened so near to that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The demand for Indian goods was so prodigiously increased by the latter discovery, that all the wealth... | |
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The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the powerful league of Cambray, and other circumstances, weakened and gradually destroyed their commerce and power. 
