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no longer were the Indies the objective. Now they were the base camp. The summit was to be the destruction of Islam and the recapture of Jerusalem. But this would have to wait. By mid-July the wind had shifted, the monsoon season was over. It was time to sail back to India. On the way, he again visited Aden, bombarded it, and worked out exactly how to capture it the following year by cutting off its water supplies.
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
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