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Prelude to the attack ... Some background information

1498Vasco da Gama lands in Calicut on the west coast of India
1510 Alfonso Albuquerque captures coastal region of Goa
1787 "Pinto Rebellion" by Goan priests is brutally crushed
1755-1910The "Rane" rebellion
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