Estácio de Sá
Portuguese soldier; first Governor of Rio de Janeiro · Lived 1520 to 1567 · aged 47
Estácio de Sá was a Portuguese soldier and officer. Sá travelled to the colony of Brazil on the orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon.
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These French colonists had established themselves in 1555 at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, in a settlement known as France Antarctique. He was the founder of Rio de Janeiro, now the second largest city in Brazil.
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Lived 1520 to 1567 · aged 47