Emergency 4 Portuguese Mod Warfare

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Political context [ ] 15th century [ ] When the Portuguese began trading on the west coast of Africa, in the 15th century, they concentrated their energies on. Hoping at first for, they soon found that were the most valuable commodity available in the region for export.

The was already well-established in the, for centuries linking it to the. However, the Portuguese who had conquered the Islamic port of in 1415 and several other towns in current day in a against Islamic neighbors, managed to successfully establish themselves in the area. But the Portuguese never established much more than a foothold in either place.

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In Guinea, rival Europeans grabbed much of the trade (mainly slaves) while local African rulers confined the Portuguese to the coast. These rulers then sent enslaved Africans to the Portuguese ports, or to forts in Africa from where they were exported. Thousands of kilometers down the coast, in Angola, the Portuguese found it even harder to consolidate their early advantage against encroachments by Dutch, British and French rivals.

Nevertheless, the fortified Portuguese towns of (established in 1587 with 400 Portuguese settlers) and (a fort from 1587, a town from 1617) remained almost continuously in Portuguese hands. As in Guinea, the slave trade became the basis of the local economy in Angola. Excursions traveled ever farther inland to procure captives that were sold by African rulers; the primary source of these slaves were those captured as a result of losing a war or inter-ethnic skirmish with other African tribes. More than a million men, women and children were shipped from Angola across the Atlantic. In this region, unlike Guinea, the trade remained largely in Portuguese hands. Nearly all the slaves were destined for.

In, reached in the 15th century by Portuguese sailors searching for a maritime route, the Portuguese settled along the coast and made their way into the hinterland as (backwoodsmen). These sertanejos lived alongside traders and even obtained employment among kings as interpreters and political advisers. One such sertanejo managed to travel through almost all the Shona kingdoms, including the 's (Mwenemutapa) metropolitan district, between 1512 and 1516. By the 1530s, small bands of Portuguese traders and penetrated the interior regions seeking gold, where they set up garrisons and trading posts at and on the and tried to establish a monopoly over the gold trade. The Portuguese finally entered into direct relations with the Mwenemutapa in the 1560s. However, the Portuguese traders and explorers settled in the coastal strip with greater success, and established strongholds safe from their main rivals in East Africa – the, including those of.

Scramble for Africa and the World Wars [ ]. Formerly Portuguese Guinea, on a map of Africa In (also referred to as Guinea at that time), the (PAIGC) started fighting in January 1963. Its fighters attacked the Portuguese headquarters in, located to the south of, the capital, near the Corubal river. Similar actions quickly spread across the entire colony, requiring a strong response from the Portuguese forces. The war in Guinea has been termed 'Portugal's Vietnam'. The PAIGC was well-trained, well-led, and equipped and received substantial support from safe havens in neighboring countries like and the Republic of (Guinea-Conakry).