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Post Verrazano
on: August 21, 2006, 09:39
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Any idea why the French are that underestimated in New Horizons? Just at the time we are playing there was the the Ango-family in Dieppe with a strong fleet of merchant vessels and corsaires. They even challenged the King of Portugal! One of their employees was Giovanni da Verrazano.
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on: August 21, 2006, 10:02
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By the way ... I had just a look at wikipedia.fr and wikipedia.com. They are not mentioning Jean Ango, but wikipedia.de does it as well as http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9007593.

One of his captains sailed to Newfoundland 1474 shortly after Corte-Real. One came to South-America in 1488, two others sailed to Sumatra and Java in 1529.
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