Estácio de Sá
(1520-1567)
Portuguese soldier and officer
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Estácio de Sá (1520 – February 20, 1567) 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. 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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1520 Santarém, Kingdom of Portugal
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1567 (aged 46) Rio de Janeiro, Colony of Brazil
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