António de Saldanha
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António de Saldanha was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century captain. He was the first European to set anchor in what is now called Table Bay, South Africa, and made the first recorded ascent of Table
Cape Town: Table Bay (left), Cape Point peninsula (right) and False Bay (behind)
Battle of Cochin
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The Battle of Cochin, sometimes referred as the second siege of Cochin, was a series of confrontations, between March and July 1504, fought on land and sea, principally between the Portuguese garrison
Duarte Pacheco's victory at the Battle of Cochin, Portuguese lithograph from 1840
Duarte Pacheco Pereira, first commander of Fort Manuel of Cochin
People from Calicut, depicted in a 16th century woodcut.