Several of the accusations were subsequently dropped, but Magellan fell into disfavor at the court of the new king, Manuel I. After taking leave without permission, he fell out of favour with Almeida, and was also accused of trading illegally with the Moors. In the midst of the battle, he received a severe knee wound. In 1513, Magellan was sent to Morocco, where he fought in the Battle of Azamor. He was forced to return to Portugal in 1512. Within a year, however, he had lost his commission after sailing a ship eastward without permission. In February 1509, he took part in the naval Battle of Diu, which marked the decline of Ottoman influence in the area. In 1506, Magellan traveled to the East Indies and joined expeditions to the Spice Islands. Almeida's party attacked and conquered the capital of Kilwa in present-day Tanzania. The voyage gave Magellan his first experience of battle when a local king, who had paid tribute to Vasco da Gama three years earlier, refused to pay tribute to Almeida.
Magellan went on his first voyage on the sea at the age of 25 in 1505, when he was sent to India to install Francisco de Almeida as the Portuguese viceroy. They were led by Spaniard Juan Sebastián el Cano, who took over command of the expedition after Magellan's death. Of the 237 or 270 crew members who set out with Magellan to circumnavigate the globe, only 17 managed to return to Spain and thereby complete the circumnavigation. He became the first person to lead an expedition sailing westward from Europe to Asia and to cross the Pacific Ocean. He did, however, die farther west than the Spice Islands of Indonesia, which he had visited from the west on earlier voyages, making him one of the first individuals to cross all the meridians of the globe. He did not complete his final, westward voyage he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. Ferdinand Magellan ( Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / fɨɾ'nɐ̃ũ dɨ mɐɣɐ'ʎɐ̃ĩʃ/ Spanish: Fernando or Hernando de Magallanes Spring 1480– April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, led the first successful attempt to sail around the entire Earth.
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