Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
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He turned the Indian Ocean into a Portuguese lake. As viceroy from 1509 to 1515, Albuquerque seized Goa, raided the Persian Gulf, sent the first European fleet into the Red Sea, and choked every naval passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific — the strategy that made Portugal the first global empire.
Born around 1453, Albuquerque rose through Portuguese ranks to command the fleet of the Arabian and Persian sea in 1506. His brilliance showed early: he conquered Goa in 1510, took Malacca in 1511, and pioneered European entry into the Red Sea and Persian Gulf — all to strangle Islam's trade routes, spread Christianity, and corner the spice market. Contemporaries called him "the Terrible" and "the Lion of the Seas" for good reason. His last five years as second governor of Portuguese India shifted to diplomacy and administration: he opened contacts with Ayutthaya, Pegu, Timor, the Moluccas, Mi…
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I then burnt the city and put everything to sword, and for days continuously the people shed blood.
I leave no town or building of the Mussalmans. Those who are taken alive, I order them to be roasted…
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