The Portuguese affected NW history mainly with its flag. The Spanish arrived at Nootka Sound on 5 May 1789. They found ships already there; one was a British ship the Iphigenia Nubiana sailing under a Portuguese flag. It was seized and the captain arrested. The other two ships were American, the Columbia Rediviva and the Lady Washington, that had wintered at Nootka Sound. Over the summer a number of other ships arrived. British commercial ships were seized on the grounds of violating Spanish rights of trade and navigation on the coast. The only English ships licensed to trade along the northwest coast of the American continent were those flying the flag of the East India Company. English
ships circumvented this (claiming of their profits) by flying the Portuguese flag. This is/was known as flying “false colors.” In warfare at sea, a belligerent warship may fly the flag of a country other than its own to deceive an enemy into believing that it is neutral or even a ship of the enemy’s own navy. Penalties, however, are harsh should one be caught flying false colors. Where might one ask, did the Portuguese concentrate their focus? Answer, Brazil where 99.5% of over 200 million people use Portuguese as their 1st language, including 2 millions of Japanese descent. And they alone control the fate of the Amazon forests. To date, we have found no pioneer in the area surrounding the History Farm from Portugal … but we continue to research and ask with this crowdsource post. We would appreciate hearing of the life of Portuguese immigrants to this area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Americans
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Portuguese.pdf
https://www.flad.pt/en/research-there-are-1-3-million-portuguese-descendants-and-immigrants-in-the-u-s/
When a ship pretends to be from a country other than its own and flies a flag of the latter country, it is said to be a:
false flag
new flag
pirate flag
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