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Battle of Baçente
On 2 February 1542, about 400 Portuguese musketeers under Cristóvão da Gama captured the Tigrayan mountain fortress of Baçente (or identified as Amba…
Timeline
- 1542Baçente · TigrayIgnoring the advice of Queen Seble Wedel, da Gama launched a three-sided attack on the Adal-held mountain fortress and captured it. Portuguese losses were light. The army re-consecrated the former mosque as a church and rested there for the rest of February. This was not a field engagement against Ahmad ibn al-Ghazi.
Sources
- Battle of Baçente https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ba%C3%A7ente
- Cristóvão da Gama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3v%C3%A3o_da_Gama