Complex sentence: Estácio de Sá (1520--1567) was a Portuguese soldier and officer who went to the colony of Brazil, on orders of the Portuguese crown, to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon.
Split into simpler sentences: Estácio de Sá (1520--1567) was a Portuguese soldier and officer. Sá travelled to the colony of Brazil on the orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon.