Afonso de Albuquerque
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
- Subcategories: Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Asian History, Spanish/Portuguese History
Article abstract: Military significance: Albuquerque, by his conquests of the strategically located port cities of Goa, in India, and Malacca, on the Malay peninsula, did more than anyone else to create the Portuguese Empire in Asia.
Ruthless, energetic, and indomitable, Afonso de Albuquerque served his military apprenticeship in the 1470’s and 1480’s in the bitter fighting between the Portuguese and the Muslims of Morocco. Transferred to the East, he established fortresses at Cochin, in India, in 1503, and Socotra, in East Africa, in 1506. He seized the...
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