Faial Island, also known in English as Fayal, is a Portuguese island of the Central Group of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Faial, as seen from the island of Pico
During the War of 1812, British ships Plantagenet, Rota, and Carnation attacked the American privateer General Armstrong on 26 September 1814 in the Fayal harbour
The bark Azor, the most popular of all the Fayal ships
Radar image of Faial Island
The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal. It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.
Under the direction of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Azores were discovered and populated in the early 1400s.
The Battle of Terceira, part of the War of the Portuguese Succession
King-Emperor Pedro IV & I planned and launched his campaign in the Liberal Wars from the Azores in name of his daughter Queen Maria II
