Portugal, obrigado por ser nosso amigo por tanto tempo. Cumprimentos, de um britânico. 🇵🇹💪🇬🇧 I hope Google translate didn't butcher that.

Credit to the English narrator’s passable pronunciation. He knows Portuguese pronunciation!

I'm from the UK and have been incredibly privileged enough to have been to many parts of the world across all inhabited continents. My visit to Portugal was easily among my favourites. Bursting with culture and history and I can't remember coming across a people more welcoming and eager to chat or help :) Can't wait to go back sometime.

Portugal & England Alliance 😍 the oldest in the world, still in force! 👌💖

I wish we had a holiday to commemorate the alliance.

Our oldest friends and feel sure most Brits like me had no idea. Thank you for an eye opening programme.

"I like to think of myself as a blend... I was born British, but my heart is very much Portuguese" Lovely.

Proud to be British and proud to have Portuguese brothers 🇬🇧🇵🇹

This documentary is really good. Please spread it in both countries! 🇵🇹💪🇬🇧

I don't think the world knows how incredible Portugal's history is

This is a wonderful for keep the Anglo-Portuguese Friendship for 650th anniversary

Gostei muito do documentário. Muito bem feito. Eu também sou inglês mas estou a viver em Portugal há 6 anos. Em minha experiência, a grande maioria dos portugueses gostam dos ingleses.

I live 22 years in the castle neighborhood. That bridge are a modern one open for tourists and the castle are reconstructed in the 40's by Salazar for the Exposição do mundo Português. Portuguese world exhibition. The original castle are far different from the actual one.

Very enjoyable documentary. Visited Portugal several years ago - wonderful country rich in history and its people are very welcoming to travellers.

Thank you for this documentary. I’m Portuguese and feel proud watching this video .

Love Portugal

Thanks for so much details. Also the Mike's effort to spell the names in very good Portuguese ! I never will forget one Taylor's Vintage 1975 I tasted ! What a Wine !!! The local Luxembourgish TV made a tiny report about "the longest aliance between 2 countries" and a lot, a lot of French didn't knew that the Portuguese were the first to beat the Napoleonic army with the help of a great English General (who later crushed Napoleon in Waterloo) ! LONG LIVE TO OUR ALLIANCE

Being raised in Brazil I found out that many sayings and folk wisdom have equal sentences in UK. The short documentary forgot to mention how important was Portugal when Napoleon blockaded traded with UK, effectively isolating it. Portugal continued trade and used Brazil to continue supplying goods to the UK, later on the King himself fled to Brazil with the escort of UK ships. This event was most critical to the 3 countries, especially Brazil, effectively from that point on it was no longer a colony.

THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT ON THIS ALLIANCE !

I’m proud to be Portuguese and living in the UK 🇬🇧

Proud of be part of this alliance,Portuguese side. God bless England

An absolutely fascinating video on the treaty, and it goes a long way to explain the attitude of the Portuguese people to the English. I have been in love with Portugal since the first time I visited over twenty years ago. When people ask me why I can only reply "a country is made up of many things, wonderful scenery, great food and wine, abundant wildlife, culture, but with Portugal you have the people who are always welcoming and friendly". We can also recommend not only a tour of the Taylor & Fladgate wine lodge but lunch in the Barão Fladgate Restaurant so time your visit carefully, or reserve a table before you go.

Great video and yes I was aware that Portugal has always been a great friend of England. Always enjoyed my visits to Portugal,very beautiful, great food and wine and of course the Port.

One important detail is that during the conquering of Lisbon and after D. Afonso Henriques gave the Muslims the right of passage and protection out of the City, the same English, and other crusaders who helped with the siege would attack those families who were fleeing the city with all their life's savings, which led D Afonso Henriques to declare that both in the neighborhoods of Mouraria and Alfama people would still be allowed to practice different religions under his protection. It is worth noting that the people the City was taken from were ruled by an Arab elite but were mostly a Moçarabe majority *(ethnic Portuguese people who had converted to escape religious taxation)* and actual Christians and Jews who were all put to the sword during the city's sack by the mercenaries. Our first king understood this very well, and so he did not set out to force convert anyone, many of the merchants that remained and pledged alliegance to him were Muslim and Jewish and they would contribute to Portugal's developing maritime endeavors.

I am from England, have always loved Portugal, the nation and the people, I raise a glass of maderia wine to 650 more years, of friendship and protection, Deus defenda Portugal

What an insanely longstanding alliance. Damn.

Great way to promote a product and create a strong brand. Much respect to Taylor's!

Splendid documentary. The narrator is one of most good historian in the History Channel.

Amazing documentary, as a brazilian with portuguese origins and history lover, I have to say this is very well done.

I'm a very proud Portuguese citizen living and working in England for 24 years.

Excellent documentary really interesting as a Brit I spend my holidays in Portugal it’s friendly and a beautiful place to visit and more importantly the suns always shining

I'm 42 years old, and when i was a kid growing up in Portugal, British culture was great part of my life, an still is today.

Fascinating. I have a friend in the UK who is Portuguese but actually Anglo-Irish. His family owns vineyards and produces Port. They arrived during the time of the Napoleonic War and set up home. I must visit Portugal.

Parabéns á Tailor's Port pelo patrocinio.

My Gt x 3 Grandmother Mariah Da Silva of the Tagus Valley married my matriarchal grandfather Stephen Palmer of the 48th Northamptonshire Regt during the Peninsular War and resettled here in England in 1814 . A very formal and loving alliance . I am honoured to have Portuguese blood in my veins .

acho fascinante que ninguém fale Português neste documentário.

Mr. MK lives in Portugal😮......ho brother now I want him to make a doc about the importance of the Azores in WWII ......would love to see images of the spitfires that used the first (red dirt) strip in Santa Maria Island......and also images of the sea battles around the islands😊

Tangier was also gifted at the same time as Bombay/Mumbai, England struggle with constant raids and gave it back to Portugal.

What a great video! Am already bringing some Taylor's along to the cottage country (love from the Great Lakes) and now I have a story to share. Consider me charmed & intent on visiting Portugal sooner rather than later

¡Dos hermosos países!❣

Great job by both History Hit and Taylor's. Compellingly watchable, brilliantly made little corner of history cemented not only by continued military alliance from the original 1300s date, but with the extant product from the era that I consider the king of sweet wines, Port. I'm a big continuity buff.

Extract from the book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel: In 1592, for example, a squadron of six English warships off the coast of the Azores set up an ambush to attack Spanish merchant ships returning from the Caribbean. The huge galleon Madre de Deus, flying the Portuguese flag, sailing on its way back from India, fell into its clutches. Despite carrying 32 bronze cannons on board, the Madre de Deus lost the brief battle, and Portugal lost a valuable cargo. Beneath the ship's deck were stowed chests full of gold and silver coins, pearls, diamonds, amber, musk, tapestries, pieces of calico and ebony. Spices were counted by the ton-more than four hundred tons of pepper, forty-five of cloves, thirty-five of cinnamon, and three tons each of a by-product of nutmeg and nutmeg itself. The Madre de Deus proved to be a prize worth half a million pounds sterling (about US$300 million today) - saw approximately half the amount deposited at the English Exchequer (England's Treasury) at that time. NOTE: These are the English allies, even when they came to help us it was to plunder everything they could.

Thank you for creating and sharing

Thank you for the Great work.

Magnificent work, well done!

Fascinating stuff Mike and very well presented.

FANTASTIC - Congratulations Mike Loads

Marvelous, thanks to all involved and particular Mike Loades 😀🍷

Thanks for this amazing documentary. ❤

This is great but how about the ultimatum by Lord Salisbury in 1890 against the Portuguese government concerning the African colonies? This triggered an immense outrage of the Portuguese people. Our anthem is a poem based on that event and against England, and was seen as a betrayal of England! This is a huge event and should not have been missed!

Very interesting video 👍. I have an university license to teach history and I am very proud of this Portuguese English alliance ❤

Going to Portugal next year.. 😊

The Portuguese are very welcome to stay in Britain, a good people and the oldest European nation - state and the first and last Empire, we,British did the right thing in helping Portugal, especially during the Napoleonic Wars, against fractured Spain. May Portugal endure with honour, essense and well - deserved pride!.

"The 1890 British Ultimatum was an ultimatum by the British government delivered on 11 January 1890 to the Kingdom of Portugal. Portugal had attempted to claim a large area of land between its colonies of Mozambique and Angola including most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia and a large part of Malawi, which had been included in Portugal's "Rose-coloured Map".[1] The ultimatum forced the retreat of Portuguese military forces from areas which had been claimed by Portugal on the basis of historical discovery and recent exploration, but which the United Kingdom claimed on the basis of effective occupation."

Very nice treated... The British Ultimatum of 1890 against Portuguese pretensions in Africa provoked a social and political movement of patriotic exaltation and contestation of the Monarchy. It marked the end of the intended “pink map”, which would unite Angola and Mozambique, under the sovereignty of Portugal. At the end of the 19th century, European countries disputed the African continent, an important source of raw materials and wealth. The Berlin Conference, in 1884, brought together the main powers with interests in Africa, determining the effective occupation as a criterion for the possession of territories. Portugal intensifies the carrying out of exploratory trips and military operations, aiming at the conquest of the territories between Angola and Mozambique, based on the “pink map” plan. Germany and France pledged not to intervene in that area, but the United Kingdom opposed the project, as it intended to carry out a rail link between South Africa and Cairo.

I enjoyed and learnt much about the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, clearly explained.

Very nice! Well documented. I'm 🇵🇹 living in the 🇬🇧 and these bounds are definitely not felt here. But it's great to know that some ppl do appreciate this friendship between nations even if it wasn't all roses... lets not forget the pink map disagreement...it prompted the fall of the Portuguese Monarchy.

Beautifully told 👏

Excellent and brilliant. Thank you

I love History and this was a nice recap of everything that I already knew. Thank you for this.

Chad King Dinis of Portugal really went up to England and went like "Would you be interested in a trade agreement with Portugal?" What a meme lord.

Really enjoyed this documentary. However, I feel it missed the oppurtunity to mencion some of the least good moments of the alliance, like the "Mapa-Cor-de-Rosa affair" and the subsequent "British Ultimatum", but also the british aversion over Portugal joining WWI.

This has been the most complete documentary I have ever seen on the alliance between Portugal and England. Sadly the downside of this alliance was the British Ultimatum in 1890. I really enjoyed watching this video. It was fantastic.

Nice vídeo!obrigado!❤🇵🇹

I LOVE this video!

this is quite fascinating to say the least.

One of the best Port wines in the world. long live Taylor Port wine.

Always a good day when the algorithm recommends Mike Loades documentaries.

well done

A long-standing relation forged by geography, mutual enemies and common interests. If England had in Portugal a closed door to spanish, and in a certain way, french ambitions, Portugal found in England a powerful friend and an assurance of it's independence. Two of the most important seafaring nations in history, if one paved the way, the other soon followed to become the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Two nations who achieved greatness in the sea, who found in it a way to escape their own peripheral territories, and by doing it forever changed the world.

It is a wonderful alliance that I'm very proud of. And especially happy that the french were defeated so many times.

Muito bem! Great 🙂

As a Portuguese and connoisseur of history, it was the biggest mistake of my ancestors.

Fantástico

really good just love it .want more haha felt short ...im a history addict respect to our england allies eyesterday today and forever

England : noone wants to be my friend😢 Portugal : il be your friend!

John of Gaunt was one of those brilliant politicians with acts that are so important, that stay in history for longer than many kings.

Still fuming that Geography now just ignored our whole friendship, viva Portugal my naval brothers

While not minimizing in any way the value of this "Oldest (indeed) alliance in the world", I was taught that the Alliance was 'signed' in 1386 - and indeed, have a brochure celebrating 'Portugal 600' - published in 1986. The brochure includes a message from the Ambassador of Portugal (to UK), specifically stating that the treaty was signed on 9 May 1386 by [representatives of] King Joâo I (of Portugal) and King Richard II (of England). I was also taught how to subtract and this makes it 637 year anniversary.

I’m proud to be English and have you living in uk.

The one that always benefict England and prejudice Portugal

Awesome History lesson! I had no idea the Treaty was THAT OLD!!!

Henry the navigator, grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, opened the transatlantic portuguese endeavours, from which ultimately the english under german rulers, will profit. When Lancaster joined the portuguese succession in 1385, Templar english secrets (remains) and the portuguese ultimate european Templar refuge (Portugal itself), joined forces to open new worlds - to their peoples.

Very good documentary, altought the numbers of the soldiers are a bit off the reallity. We can check those with cronics written by both sides, but if we decide to pick a neutral position we have an Italian writer that wrote about it.

And there are some, who claim that the obscure man known to us as Christopher Columbus, was a galego noble man from Pontevedra. Whoever he really was, Columbus learned his secrets in Portugal, married and had son there, spoke and wrote the portuguese, offered his planned adventure first to the portuguese king (who refused), and returning from his first voyage (discovery of the americas) stopped first in Lisbon, telling the same king of Portugal who refused his services, what was accomplished, before anyone else.

Exelente

Very interesting video! Vary little people know of Portugal's History! As an example Tea was a gift of the Portuguese crown to English crown!

i love the british so much, i wanted to learn the british english but is to hard for me :( but im trying step by step

The darkest day in portuguese history.

Os ingleses deveriam aprender o idioma português na mesma proporção que os portugueses aprendem o inglês ....assim seria mais fácil para fazer intercâmbio Cultural,científico e na área turística! Falei,está falado!

Daughter of Portuguese father, I would love to find this documentary with Portuguese subtitles! Is there a chance?

Many inaccuracies in the description of the battle of aljubarrota. The battle lasted about 30 to 45 minutes and started at 18:00 on a hot day of 14 August. There were 2 waves of attack by the Castilian army that never had the 40,000 men in the field...15,000 of the infantry marching at the end of the column did not even reach the battlefield (see how the Castilian army marched and the disposition of the various forces). The 2nd wave, Castilian cavalry with the support of siege weapons and bows managed to open a gap in the Portuguese vanguard, the battle was uncertain, and it was with the help of D João's rearguard and the closing of the gap in the vanguard that the slaughter of the most Castilian knights, were closed in a kind of square. There were simultaneously 2 Castilian flanking attempts, promptly repelled by the portuguese rearguard, but for that they had to summarily execute all the French knights taken prisoner of the 1st wave. Then there was the general rout of the army of Castile...to the south those who arrived at the battlefield, south side of the Portuguese army...and to the north those who were still marching towards the battlefield. There was a lot to say about why and how this happened, why the Castela army had to try the attack even the situation wasnt the best, the failed attempts of understanding in the hours leading up to the clash, because everybody wanted to avoid the battle, including the Castela king, D Juan, but that is a story that does not fit here to expand.

Literally the textbook definition of overstaying the welcome.

Probably why there is or was a pub on the Isle of Dogs called Porto

Tordesillas 1494 (treaty) altered Alcáçovas-Toledo 1429 (treaty), radically.

100/100

Skipped the Pink Map british mindless greed that took down the Monarchy and directly led to the chaotic 1st Republic, indirectly to the 40 year following dictatorship :) And the possible yet unstudied role of the portuguese Lisbon arsenals and ship / navigation tech in the creation of the british navy. But hey, not a bad relationship, for the blunt winner takes all times that it lasted.

funny thing is... I am portuguese and I learned how to dance traditional scotish dances... that is how close the culture exchange is

The first Lisbon Bishop in 1147 was Osborno, a former English Conqueror of Lisbon. The Rolins Moura,the first Luso English Family who rulled Azambuja and Vila Franca Region, in 1147 and 1200 chart of rights English helped Portugal too much,in the South. We should be grateful to some Nations and Peoples. We had being both in Roman Empire,too.Londinium...❤

"Às armas! Às armas! Contra os Bretões marchar, marchar!" Hino de Portugal 🇵🇹🇬🇧