The Battle of El Tor was a military engagement that took place in 1541, between Portuguese forces under the command of the Governor of India Dom Estevão da Gama and those of the Ottoman Empire then in the city of El Tor, on the Sinai Peninsula. The Turks were driven from the city, but at the request of Christian monks from the Monastery of Saint Catherine the Portuguese spared the city from being plundered, and celebrated a mass and a knighting ceremony therein.
It is among the most celebrated episodes of the history of Portugal, and considered one of the greatest achievents of chivalry of history; the event was later celebrated across Europe.[4]
^Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume III 1539-1579, Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, 1992, pp. 39–40
^Luiz de Sousa: Annais de El-Rei Dom João Terceiro, Typ. da Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1844, p. 344.
^ abGaspar Correia: Lendas da Índia book IV, tome IV, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciências, p. 184.
^Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume III 1539-1579, Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, 1992, p. 40
The BattleofElTor was a military engagement that took place in 1541, between Portuguese forces under the command of the Governor of India Dom Estevão...
including the Battleof Suakin, the Attack on Jeddah and the BattleofElTor. 1542 8 March. Antoine Escalin des Aimars gains promises of Ottoman aid in...
The following is an incomplete list of wars involving Portugal. Military history of Portugal Unofficial Portuguese soldiers just helped the Zamorin. See...
2019. Publishing, Tor com. "Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir | Tor.com Publishing". Tor Publishing. Retrieved 26 December 2019. El-Mohtar, Amal (18 October...
Juan Heights. In the charge at the Battleof San Juan Hill U.S. forces captured the Spanish position. At the BattleofEl Caney the same day, U.S. forces...
The Battleofel Buqqar Ridge took place on 27 October 1917, when one infantry regiment and cavalry troops of the Yildirim Army Group, attacked the 8th...
Egypt, because of the prevailing Mediterranean Sea winds. Two important World War II battles were fought in the area: At the First BattleofEl Alamein (1–27...
of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin. BBC Books. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-563-38477-9. Hoyt, Edwin P. (1993). 199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad. Tor...
the extension of the railway to Deir el Belah, the headquarters of Eastern Force, to enable "all available troops" to be deployed for battle. Water reservoirs...
pustules. William Hughes of The A.V. Club deemed McMillan's facial prosthetics "very memorable". Emmet Asher-Perrin ofTor.com wrote that "Lynch's attempt...
The Battleof Chaul was a naval battle between the Portuguese and an Egyptian Mamluk fleet in 1508 in the harbour of Chaul in India. The battle ended...
Nahr el Auja, as the Battleof Jaffa, although Jaffa had been occupied as a consequence of the Battleof Mughar Ridge on 16 November. This series of battles...
the newly created Desert Column's victory at the Battleof Magdhaba secured the Mediterranean port ofEl Arish and the supply route, water pipeline and...
commanded during the Battleof Magdhaba in December, with the addition of the 5th Mounted Brigade (which had been garrisoning El Arish) and the 7th Light...
one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; its Great Library, the largest in the ancient world; and the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, one of the Seven...
The Battleof Caseros (Spanish: Batalla de Caseros; Portuguese: Batalha de Caseros) was fought near the town ofEl Palomar, Argentina, on 3 February 1852...
published by Bantam Books in the U.K. and Tor Books in the U.S., consists of ten volumes, beginning with Gardens of the Moon (1999) and concluding with The...
Global Information
Portuguese Empire
Ottoman Empire