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    and rescued Mormugão on the 5th of September and at Mandovi bar two days later. D. António Teles de Meneses was the fifth son of Rui Teles de Meneses (c...
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    destroyers contain integrated weapons systems, such as the United States’ Aegis Combat System, and may be adopted for use in an anti-missile or ballistic-missile...
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    forces on the next day at 20:30. It is estimated that during her last combat Afonso de Albuquerque fired almost 400 shells. On the Indian Union side, two...
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    the Sinai Peninsula. On 26 December, India deployed the destroyers INS Mormugao and Visakhapatnam in the Arabian Sea after an Israel-affiliated merchant...
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    resistance, led by Matias de Albuquerque, was concentrated in Arraial do Bom Jesus, on the outskirts of Recife. Using indigenous combat tactics, such as guerrilla...
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    approximately 2,000 European and allied indigenous soldiers were killed in combat, and more than 35,000 soldiers and labourers died from disease. The destruction...
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  • islands near Diu, João de Barros calls it Ilha de Bet. Denvers, 1894, p.402 Denvers, 1894, p.402 Monteiro, Saturnino. Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa...
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    (Mozambique Island, Beira and Lourenço Marques) and Portuguese India (Mormugão), in a total of 72 German and Austro-Hungarian vessels. This is followed...
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    Portuguese-Indian War, NRP Afonso de Albuquerque engaged several Indian frigates that were trying to force the entry in Mormugao harbour, Goa, being severely...
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    Oman was a naval battle between a large Portuguese armada under Dom Fernando de Meneses and the Ottoman Indian fleet under Seydi Ali Reis. The campaign was...
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    edition, tome III, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, p. 92. Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa 1139-1975, volume II, 1991...
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    against the fort and mounted them with great shouts. A fierce hand-in-hand combat ensued until fire from the ships helped the garrison repulse the assault...
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    Lopes de Sequeira mobilized three galleons, a caravel and three galleys under the command of Dom Aleixo de Meneses and after a long-drawn combat of artillery...
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    fort sallied out and engaged the squadron of Albuquerque in hand-to-hand combat but his men were routed and he was killed. The fort was captured from the...
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    riches without the least danger; but earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed." He was the first and last to capture such...
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    Monteiro 1996, p. 90. Monteiro, Armando da Silva Saturnino (1996). Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa (1669-1807) (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Livraria...
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    Portuguese conqueror, António Correia. In the fighting for Bahrain, most of the combat was carried out by Portuguese troops, while the Hormuzi admiral, Reis Xarafo...
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    command of Admiral Willem Haultain de Zoete. The Dutch adopted a crescent-shaped formation. Their strategy was to refuse combat if at all possible, and to concentrate...
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    German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems. Naval Institute Press. p. 246. ISBN 9781591149552. "Geschichte". marine.de (in German)...
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    Society, Volumes 19-20, 1941, p. 192. Saturnino Monteiro (1992): Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume III, p. 95-103. Frederick Charles Danvers...
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    portal Siege of Aden Capture of Aden (1548) Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume II, 1522-1538, 1991, Livraria Sá da Costa...
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    painted an image of the battle in 1650, showing the rocky landscape and combat between Dutch soldiers armed with rifled and stereotypical Amerindians with...
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    in 1488, the Count of Borba Dom Vasco Coutinho distinguished himself in combat ahead of 70 horsemen against the qaid of Ksar el-Kebir, whom he personally...
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    party. These were the guns of the former Portuguese fortress on Hormuz. "Combates Navais". Marinha Portuguesa. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021...
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  • by the Portuguese. Battle of Duyon River Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa 1139-1975, volume VI, 1995, Livraria Sá da Costa...
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    Hadi, p. 56 William Marsden, p. 428 Saturnino Monteiro (1992): Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume III, pp. 95–103. Frederick Charles Danvers...
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    western prongs of the three-headed Japanese assault. The Central Force's combat ships included the light carrier Ryūjō, the seaplane tenders Sanyo Maru...
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    missile destroyers like the INS Kolkata, INS Kochi, INS Chennai and INS Mormugao, as well as frigates like the INS Talwar and INS Tarkash. On January 5...
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    German cruiser Emden (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    5.3 m (17 ft); at standard load, the draft was 5.15 m (16.9 ft), and at combat load the draft increased to 5.93 m (19.5 ft). Her designed displacement...
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    1500 Portuguese sailors, uncounted number of native sailors, oarsmen and combat slaves and a little under 400 heavy cannon and 600 light cannon. Just as...
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