OK, how can we have a situation where Portugal has, with all it's OTL posessions, Canary Islands?
Henry the Navigator was committed to it during all his life and he failed spectacularly. A couple of years of control of Lazarote and a brief foothold on La Gomera was all that he got.OK, how can we have a situation where Portugal has, with all it's OTL posessions, Canary Islands?
A little tangential, but are there any real natural harbors on the Canaries? On the map they all look so open to the effects of wind & wave.
To Lusitania's point about about the Pope assigning the islands to Castile: why was that done, and why by the Pope? Was he the mediator in a dispute?