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FONOPs furore raises tough questions on price to be paid for US-India partnership against China
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FONOPs furore raises tough questions on price to be paid for US-India partnership against China
The trumpet blew from the admiral’s flagship; the great fleet of Yusuf Hamid, commander of Imperial Turkey’s forces in the Indian Ocean, heeled west, and disappeared into the darkness. For two months, travellers along the coast had seen the flickering fire from the great siege cannon. The Portuguese defenders of the citadel of Diu had been reduced but the Turks had also reached breaking point. Georgius Huszthius a one-time student at Hungary’s University of Pécs, whose extraordinary life led from a village of Croatia to service in the Turkish fleet recorded that their fresh water was spent, their meat had rotted, and their bread was full of worms. ....

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