The Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque,…
September 1507 CE
The Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque, after defeating the Mamluk fleet in 1506, had started to raid the coasts of Arabia and the Horn of Africa.
The twenty Portuguese ships that had entered the Red Sea in 1507 and raided Indian shipping here have brought the Mamluk Indian trade to near collapse.
The Portuguese attempt to establish a base at Socotra in 1507 in order to stop the Mamluk trade through the Red Sea, but the island proves too inhospitable and is ineffective in this role, so that the Portuguese leave after a few months.
The Mamluk fleet of about fifty vessels is stationed in August–September 1507 at Aden, preparing to go to India.
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