Post by Luiz Carvalho da Silva on Mar 15, 2017 15:18:26 GMT
Name: Luiz Carvalho da Silva
Nationality: Portuguese
Profession: Former Bandeirante, now Quartermaster of the Defiance
Born: 1626 (age 34)
Fighting:
Sniper: 80
-Flintlock Musktet 80
-Cutlass (Espada Ancha) 80
Artillery: 80
-Naval Artillery 80
-Short Sword 80
-Flintlock Pistol 80
Armor: 25
Physical Attributes:
Strength: 20
Agility: 60
Swimming: 10
Stamina: 80
Professional Skills:
Sailing: 30
Tactics (land): 40
Survival (Jungle) 40
Languages:
Portuguese Free
English 40
Incan 40
Biography:
Luiz Carvalho da Silva was born in 1626 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was the elder of a pair of twins boys, fathered by a second-generation Portugese immigrant and his Mameluco wife. In their youth Luiz and his brother Tulio led a fairly uneventful life, aiding their father in managing his shipping business and humoring their mother by learning her native tongue. In the constant exchange of exported sugar, tobacco, cotton and native products from Brazil for imported wine, olive oil, textiles from Portugal, Luiz learned the basis for commerce and the early lesson that coin was king in the new world.
In 1639, at the age of 13, Luiz and Tulio fought along with the military which was engaged in war against the Dutch, who had conquered the Portugese settlements of Bahia and Pernambuco on the north-eastern coast. They served under the command of the famed bandeirante António Raposo Tavares, who had led the first bandeira in 1628, which alone was responsible for the destruction of most of the Jesuit missions of Spanish Guayrá and the enslavement of over 60,000 indigenous people. War turned soft untested boys into hardened soldiers, equally skilled at picking off Dutch soldiers at range with their muskets as they were in the thick of the fighting with pistol and blade. This portion of the Dutch-Portugese War was known as the Sugar War or Pernambucana Insurrection, which Luiz and Tulio fought side by side in until its bitter end at the Battle of Guararapes in 1649. Though the Dutch West India Company fielded a larger, better equipped force, they suffered morale problems as most of their army was made up of mercenaries from Europe (primarily Germany) who felt no real passion for the war in Brazil, as opposed to the Natives and Portuguese settlers who considered Brazil to be their home and were fighting for a patriotic cause. The Dutch force was also unused to fighting in the dense jungle and humid conditions of the country, wearing thick, brightly colored European clothing and heavy metal armor which inhibited their dexterity. The Dutch had expected the enemy to march down the well established coastal roads, and thus formed a line of defense covering these roads. However, the Portuguese force used a series of minor trails to reach Pernambuco, appearing out of the wetlands to the west and Guararapes Hills (from which the battle derived its name) and flanking the Dutch. After several hours of fighting, the Dutch retreated northwards to Recife, leaving their artillery behind. Following the Dutch retreat, the Portuguese army marched into Pernambuco, ending the Dutch occupation of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
Immediately following the war, António Raposo Tavares announced his intent to embark on another bandeira, aimed at obtaining native slaves for trade and finding mineral riches in the unexplored mainland. He took on Luiz and Tulio as officers in the endeavor, along with 200 white mercenaries from São Paulo and over a thousand Indians. The bandeirantes traveled for over 10,000 kilometres following the courses of the rivers, most notably the Paraguay River, the Grande River, the Mamoré River, the Madeira River and the Amazon River.
The fighting in the jungle was not like that in the war, the bandeirantes often enslaving the indigenous people disguising themselves as Spanish Jesuits, singing mass to lure the natives out of their settlements, relying on surprise attacks. If luring the natives did not work, the bandeirantes would surround the settlements and set them alight, forcing inhabitants out into the open. Another strategy was to instigate a war between two tribes, then take both sides captive when they were weakened. At a time when imported African slaves sold from $100–$500 the bandeirantes were able to sell large numbers of native slaves at a huge profit due to their relatively inexpensive price.
In 1552, while raiding settlements along the Amazon, Luiz and Tulio discovered a tribe with an unusual quantity of gold trinkets. Under interrogation, they made mention of the fabled city of El Dorado. At Tavares’ order, Luiz diverted a number of men from the course along the river into the dense jungles, in search of the city of gold. Ambushes and disease decimated the group and whittled them down to a dozen men. Despite sending up a signal, no aid came from the main company, Tavares abandoning them to their fate. So Luiz led the survivors to the sea, trekking and fighting through hell on earth. In one ambush, Tulio took and arrow to the leg, dying a week later of sepsis. Luiz buried his brother in a shallow grave and continued towards the coast, infighting killing as many as the natives and disease.
Reaching the coast with only eight men left, Luiz was able to negotiate travel aboard a Portugese privateer vessel harrying the British fleet, England having allied with the Dutch to continue the war at sea that they had lost on land. The ship was called Elvira and was captained by Bartolomeu Alvares Cabrillo. Luiz quickly his worth, he filled a number of positions on the ship, usually replacing casualties in posts above him. He went from gunner, to master gunner, to boatswain, to quartermaster. Despite the conflict's end in 1661 and a resurgent Anglo-Portugese Alliance, the ship and its crew turned to piracy and continued preying upon British merchant ships near its colonies, until their capture by the privateer Sir Edward Bliss later in the same year. Most presumed Luiz dead, another pirate to the gallows, but curiously a few months later he turned up again in Roatan as quartermaster of the galleon Defiance under Captain Audrey Rose.
Nationality: Portuguese
Profession: Former Bandeirante, now Quartermaster of the Defiance
Born: 1626 (age 34)
Fighting:
Sniper: 80
-Flintlock Musktet 80
-Cutlass (Espada Ancha) 80
Artillery: 80
-Naval Artillery 80
-Short Sword 80
-Flintlock Pistol 80
Armor: 25
Physical Attributes:
Strength: 20
Agility: 60
Swimming: 10
Stamina: 80
Professional Skills:
Sailing: 30
Tactics (land): 40
Survival (Jungle) 40
Languages:
Portuguese Free
English 40
Incan 40
Biography:
Luiz Carvalho da Silva was born in 1626 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was the elder of a pair of twins boys, fathered by a second-generation Portugese immigrant and his Mameluco wife. In their youth Luiz and his brother Tulio led a fairly uneventful life, aiding their father in managing his shipping business and humoring their mother by learning her native tongue. In the constant exchange of exported sugar, tobacco, cotton and native products from Brazil for imported wine, olive oil, textiles from Portugal, Luiz learned the basis for commerce and the early lesson that coin was king in the new world.
In 1639, at the age of 13, Luiz and Tulio fought along with the military which was engaged in war against the Dutch, who had conquered the Portugese settlements of Bahia and Pernambuco on the north-eastern coast. They served under the command of the famed bandeirante António Raposo Tavares, who had led the first bandeira in 1628, which alone was responsible for the destruction of most of the Jesuit missions of Spanish Guayrá and the enslavement of over 60,000 indigenous people. War turned soft untested boys into hardened soldiers, equally skilled at picking off Dutch soldiers at range with their muskets as they were in the thick of the fighting with pistol and blade. This portion of the Dutch-Portugese War was known as the Sugar War or Pernambucana Insurrection, which Luiz and Tulio fought side by side in until its bitter end at the Battle of Guararapes in 1649. Though the Dutch West India Company fielded a larger, better equipped force, they suffered morale problems as most of their army was made up of mercenaries from Europe (primarily Germany) who felt no real passion for the war in Brazil, as opposed to the Natives and Portuguese settlers who considered Brazil to be their home and were fighting for a patriotic cause. The Dutch force was also unused to fighting in the dense jungle and humid conditions of the country, wearing thick, brightly colored European clothing and heavy metal armor which inhibited their dexterity. The Dutch had expected the enemy to march down the well established coastal roads, and thus formed a line of defense covering these roads. However, the Portuguese force used a series of minor trails to reach Pernambuco, appearing out of the wetlands to the west and Guararapes Hills (from which the battle derived its name) and flanking the Dutch. After several hours of fighting, the Dutch retreated northwards to Recife, leaving their artillery behind. Following the Dutch retreat, the Portuguese army marched into Pernambuco, ending the Dutch occupation of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
Immediately following the war, António Raposo Tavares announced his intent to embark on another bandeira, aimed at obtaining native slaves for trade and finding mineral riches in the unexplored mainland. He took on Luiz and Tulio as officers in the endeavor, along with 200 white mercenaries from São Paulo and over a thousand Indians. The bandeirantes traveled for over 10,000 kilometres following the courses of the rivers, most notably the Paraguay River, the Grande River, the Mamoré River, the Madeira River and the Amazon River.
The fighting in the jungle was not like that in the war, the bandeirantes often enslaving the indigenous people disguising themselves as Spanish Jesuits, singing mass to lure the natives out of their settlements, relying on surprise attacks. If luring the natives did not work, the bandeirantes would surround the settlements and set them alight, forcing inhabitants out into the open. Another strategy was to instigate a war between two tribes, then take both sides captive when they were weakened. At a time when imported African slaves sold from $100–$500 the bandeirantes were able to sell large numbers of native slaves at a huge profit due to their relatively inexpensive price.
In 1552, while raiding settlements along the Amazon, Luiz and Tulio discovered a tribe with an unusual quantity of gold trinkets. Under interrogation, they made mention of the fabled city of El Dorado. At Tavares’ order, Luiz diverted a number of men from the course along the river into the dense jungles, in search of the city of gold. Ambushes and disease decimated the group and whittled them down to a dozen men. Despite sending up a signal, no aid came from the main company, Tavares abandoning them to their fate. So Luiz led the survivors to the sea, trekking and fighting through hell on earth. In one ambush, Tulio took and arrow to the leg, dying a week later of sepsis. Luiz buried his brother in a shallow grave and continued towards the coast, infighting killing as many as the natives and disease.
Reaching the coast with only eight men left, Luiz was able to negotiate travel aboard a Portugese privateer vessel harrying the British fleet, England having allied with the Dutch to continue the war at sea that they had lost on land. The ship was called Elvira and was captained by Bartolomeu Alvares Cabrillo. Luiz quickly his worth, he filled a number of positions on the ship, usually replacing casualties in posts above him. He went from gunner, to master gunner, to boatswain, to quartermaster. Despite the conflict's end in 1661 and a resurgent Anglo-Portugese Alliance, the ship and its crew turned to piracy and continued preying upon British merchant ships near its colonies, until their capture by the privateer Sir Edward Bliss later in the same year. Most presumed Luiz dead, another pirate to the gallows, but curiously a few months later he turned up again in Roatan as quartermaster of the galleon Defiance under Captain Audrey Rose.
: 300 gold