Bringers of War: The Portuguese in Africa During the Age of Gunpowder & Sail from the 15th to 18th Century

by John Laband

Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves and searching for mineral riches. They fought their ancient Muslim foes wherever they encountered them, overthrew African kingdoms and resisted Dutch, Omani and Ottoman rivals.

Campaigning over difficult terrain and in notoriously inhospitable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848326580
• ISBN13: 9781848326583
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Frontline Books,
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"