for this reason mem de
sá, governor general of brazil, saw fit to send estácio (his nephew)
on an expedition to expel the french and create a city to keep the
french out.
when the portuguese force disembarked at praia de fora,
they gave their settlement the epithet são sebastião do rio de
janeiro -
after portuguese king dom sebastião - and the first
houses and churches in rio were built there. on march 1st, 1565 the city rio de janeiro
was founded.