In their quest for a sea route to the riches of the Orient, the Europeans stumbled across an immense continent: the Americas.

New territory, new ambitions.

The Spanish coveted the gold and silver while the Portuguese gambled on the lucrative spice trade by settling on the Brazilian coast. Searching for a passage via the North, the French established a commercial empire founded on the fur trade while the English colonized the East coast of America.

But between the dream and the reality was the Atlantic, an ocean of many deadly perils.