| There were whole armadas of different ships, space stations and planets, no end to the add-ons for your craft and every mission was different. |
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| Even the most discrete of armadas might alter their plans and give hint to some clandestinity on our part. |
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| And on more than one occasion, a late winter storm had wiped out entire armadas of their felucca ships. |
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| Their navy first threatened Constantinople in 654, Greek fire being one of the weapons used to defeat this and subsequent armadas. |
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| Fleets of aircraft, armadas of ships, armies of soldiers came across the English Channel and struck the German defenses. |
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| The Caliph sent several small armadas to defeat Dahar but these were all soundly defeated. |
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| Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon. |
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| With the additional threat of armadas and independent looters, keeping the American riches flowing into Spain became a very complex problem. |
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| Instead of aerial armadas and huge tank fleets on the ground, the military response will also be low-key and downbeat but no less effective for having such a low profile. |
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| The Portuguese India armadas challenged this old spice route, for a brief period disrupted it, but they did not eliminate it. |
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| Two more armadas were sent by Spain, in 1596 and 1597, but both were once more scattered by treacherous storms. |
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| Besides the permanent three fleets, the Navy continues to organize the ad hoc India armadas, dispatched to India on an annual basis. |
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| But Sofala's harbor was marred by a long moving sandbank and hazardous shoals, making it quite unsuitable as a stop for the India armadas. |
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| But Portuguese armadas on their way to India did not have to stop at those locations, and so usually did not. |
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| The capture of Goa had been largely motivated by the desire to find a replacement for Anjediva as the first anchoring point for the armadas. |
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| Da Gama led two of the Portuguese armadas destined for India, the first and the fourth. |
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| Thereafter Goa, with its better harbor and greater supply base, served as the first anchorage point of Portuguese armadas upon arriving in India. |
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| His path would be followed up thereafter by yearly Portuguese India Armadas. |
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| Portuguese India armadas tended to follow the same outward route. |
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| While the India armadas were used to ferry troops, officials, missionaries and colonists between Europe and Asia, their primary objective was commercial. |
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| There are several chronicles of Portuguese India written by contemporaries and historians, which provide substantive descriptions of the various armadas. |
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| Faria e Sousa includes not only the India Armadas, but all the Portuguese fleets from 1412, including those dispatched to Africa under Prince Henry the Navigator. |
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| There is quite some conflict between the various sources over the exact composition of the various India Armadas, particularly in the names of the captains of the vessels. |
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| Future Portuguese India Armadas have to contend with this conflict, it will dictate Portuguese strategy in the Indian Ocean and draw in other participants. |
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