Estêvão da Gama, who is an antagonist in the film, is played by Alexx O'Nell.
The film accounts a fictional assassination attempt on Vasco da Gama by an Indian. Gama acquiesced to their demands, and landed 400 men, 130 military slaves, and sufficient supplies for them at Massawa and the nearby port of Arqiqo under the charge of his brother Cristóvão, before departing for India July 9.Įstêvão da Gama appears in a Malayalam film titled Urumi (2011). Once back at Massawa, Gama found the men he had left were restless and convinced by the self-described patriarch João Bermudes that they should provide military assistance to the beleaguered Emperor of Ethiopia. Gama was forced to retrace his steps to Massawa, although pausing to attack the port of El-Tor on the Sinai Peninsula. Reaching Suez, he discovered that the Ottomans had long had intelligence of his raid, and foiled his attempt to burn their beached ships. The fleet reached Massawa February 12, where Gama left a number of ships and continued north. He commanded the fleet that entered the Red Sea, with the intent of attacking the Ottoman fleet in its harbor at Suez, leaving Goa Decemand reaching Aden January 27, 1541. He was brought up in a noble family, little is known about his upbringing, except that he was the third son of Estevao da Gama. In 1497 he was commissioned by the Portuguese King to find a maritime route to India.
Named after his paternal grandfather Estêvão da Gama, Estêvão was the second son of Vasco da Gama and brother of Cristóvão da Gama. In 1519, after years of ignoring his petitions, King Manuel I finally hurried to give Vasco da Gama a feudal title, appointing him the first Count of Vidigueira, a count title created by a royal decree issued in vora on December 29, after a complicated agreement with Dom Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him on payment the towns of Vidigueira and Vila dos Frades. Vasco da Gama is an explorer who was born in Sines, Portugal around 1460.
1505–1576) was the Portuguese governor of Portuguese Gold Coast (1529–15?) and Portuguese India (1540–1542).