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In 1505 King Manuel I of Portugal made Almeida, then in his mid-fifties, the first viceroy of Portuguese India (Estado da Índia). [1] With an armada of 22 ships, including 14 carracks and 6 caravels, Almeida departed from Lisbon on 25 March 1505. The armada carried a crew of 1,500 soldiers.
In 1505, king Manuel I of Portugal nominated Dom Francisco de Almeida as first Viceroy of India. He was tasked, among other things, with establishing a number of forts on the east African coast, namely at Sofala and Kilwa, and free Portuguese trade from opposition. [3]
The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to December 31, 1509. ... a group of Portuguese explorers led by Francisco de Almeida, with 22 ships and 1,500 men, ...
The Seventh Armada was the largest Portuguese armada yet sent to India — 21 ships (or 22, if Bom Jesus is counted separately), carrying 1500 armed men with 1000 in crew and others. (The following list should not be regarded as authoritative; it is a tentative list compiled from various conflicting accounts.)
Cide Barbudo hurried on to India, reaching Cochin in August 1506, delivering his report on the disastrous conditions of both Sofala and Kilwa to the vice-roy D. Francisco de Almeida. Almeida dispatched Nuno Vaz Pereira to assume the capitaincy of Sofala and do what he could to restore its conditions. Pereira left India in October, stopping in ...
Almeida was instructed to only sign peace if the Zamorin agreed to expel the Muslim community from Calicut. [37] He departed on March 25 with 21 ships and 1500 men, including his son Dom Lourenço de Almeida, considered "physically stronger than anyone else, expert in the use of all weapons." [37]
Almeida, however, was unable to dedicate resources to the enterprise and sent only two undercover Portuguese envoys in August 1506, Francisco Pereira and Estevão de Vilhena, aboard a Muslim merchant's ship. The mission was aborted once they were detected and nearly lynched on the Coromandel Coast, narrowly making it back to Cochin by November ...
The Battle of Salt River was a small [1] military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua ("Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate spelling [2]), notable for being the first military encounter between Europeans and indigenous people in what would later become South Africa.