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O Guarani 2.4 · 2.4

1578: against the French at Cabo Frio

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Fez parte em 1578 da celebre expedição do Dr. Antonio de Salema contra os francezes, que havião estabeleoido uma feitoria em Cabo Frio para fazerem o contrabando de páo-brasil.

In 1578 he took part in Dr. Antônio de Salema's famous expedition against the French, who had established a trading post at Cabo Frio to carry on the smuggling of brazilwood.

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A second campaign: in 1578 he joined Dr. Antônio de Salema's famous expedition against the French, who had set up a trading post at Cabo Frio to smuggle brazilwood.

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The second date pins him to Salema's 1575–78 destruction of the French post at Cabo Frio, closing the book on France Antarctique. Note the source's estabeleoido: a printer's or scanner's slip for estabelecido that we keep exactly as the edition of record prints it, correcting only in the gloss.

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