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       Ottoman-Portuguese War - Age of Colonization
       By: guest55 Date: August 10, 2021, 1:16 pm
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       Ottoman-Portuguese War - Age of Colonization
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       [quote]The Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts of 1538 to 1559 were a
       series of armed military encounters between the Portuguese
       Empire, the Kingdom of Hormuz and the Ethiopian Empire against
       the Ottoman Empire and Adal Sultanate, in the Indian Ocean, the
       Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and in East Africa. This is a period
       of battles in The Ottoman-Portuguese War.[/quote]
       [quote]This war took place upon the backdrop of the
       Ethiopian-Adal War. Ethiopia had been invaded in 1529 by Imam
       Ahmed Gragn. Portuguese help, which was first asked by Emperor
       Lebna Dengel in 1520 to help defeat Adal while it was weak,
       finally arrived in Mitsiwa on February 10, 1541, during the
       reign of Emperor Galawdewos. The force was led by Cristóvão da
       Gama (second son of Vasco da Gama) and included 400 musketeers,
       several breech-loading field guns and few Portuguese cavalry as
       well as a number of artisans and other non-combatants.[/quote]
       [quote]Major hostilities between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire
       began in 1538, when the Ottomans assisted the Sultanate of
       Gujarat with about 80 vessels to lay siege to Diu, which had
       been built by the Portuguese in 1535. The Ottoman fleet was led
       by Suleiman I's governor of Egypt Suleiman Pasha, but the attack
       was not successful and the siege was lifted.
       The Portuguese under Estêvão da Gama (first son of Vasco da
       Gama) organized an expedition to destroy the Ottoman fleet at
       Suez, leaving Goa on December 31, 1540 and reaching Aden January
       27, 1541. The fleet reached Massawa on February 12, where Gama
       left a number of ships and continued north. The Portuguese then
       sacked the Ottoman port of Suakin. Reaching Suez, he discovered
       that the Ottomans had long known of his raid, and foiled his
       attempt to burn the beached ships. Gama was forced to retrace
       his steps to Massawa, although pausing to attack the port of
       El-Tor (Sinai Peninsula). [/quote]
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