Heritage
The History of the Portuguese in Bermuda
This article was taken from our archives. It originally appeared in the October 1999 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. In 1609, the same year the Sea Venture ran aground in Bermuda, a self-serving Dutch jurist vigorously proposed the "freedom of the seas to all nations," disputing, no doubt, Portugal's claims of dominion of the oceans. Long before the British landed in Bermuda, however, Spanish and Portuguese explorers had sighted, landed, or been wrecked…
April 2, 2023
