In another life Roger Crowley would be a seafarer instead of a world class professor and proficient writer of history. Most of this mans books focus on the seas and the age of European expansion and how firepower played a crucial role in Europeans opening up markets for themselves and ending the domination of trade made Muslim Middle men who then used profits to pay for Muslim Corsairs to harass the Medittearrean. Pretty much what you see now in France is basically Muslims supporting their ilk to prey on Europeans from the immense profits that Americas gas-guzzling big car addictions have helped pay for the rise in these Gulf monarchs and now Islamic State exported terrorists. Portugal and Spain new back in the day there was a Muslim problem as so many of their citizens along with Italians along the coast would be kidnapped into slavery women often being separated from families and serving in harems. This book covers sea conflicts between Portugal and Muslims in opening up India's ports in the early sixteenth century. Portugal would not been able to accomplish this with such a small army were it not for the years in advancement and study of cannon power and how best to coordinate and use it in a land battle.
sir Roger Crowley writes about how Portugal decide to take the war to India, a source of so much profit of the Mameluke leaders in Egypt paying for this sixteen century terrorism of Arab Muslims against European civilization and society they hated so much for halting their advances on world conquest for their rotten book and religion. Roger Crowley kicks ass and would of made a good pirate.In Mr Crowley's book "Conquerors" Mr Crowley approaches the advance of the Portuguese into India as sudden and explosive as the superior sea faring technology and cannon construction devastated those Muslims and Bengalis that resisted and didn't ally with new economic deal and trade with this sea faring power. The tactical advantages of Portuguese navigation was key for this small group of navymen to set out and conquer vast lands and ending the Islamic domination of trade in needed exotic items from India into Europe.
This book kicks ass and shows the contemporary view that the Crusades ended in fifteenth century needs to be extended as Europeans and Muslims have been fighting this forever war with one another for control, power, and influence battling for converts among the various dark races throughout the world. King Manuel's mission of ending Muslim merchants profits of the spice trade and the sea menace in the Medittearrean world that these merchants subsidized Muslim corsairs was a noble mission as the Portuguese fanned out into India with a vengeance. The Portuguese gave the Hindus two choices to ally with the Portuguese or face expulsion as the Muslims did. 
The conquest of Goa is tallied up and explored in this book with account how Portugal was able to retain its culture and base in this area for hundreds of years winning Christian converts. between Manuel, Joao II, Alonso de Albuquerque, and Vasco de Gama many Portuguese explorers and missionaries tried to establish a Christian kingdom and eradicate Muslim presence in the Indian Coast. this great book covers epic sea battles between Portugal and the Turks in the Indian ocean and the capture of Indian port cities and the first long-range maritime empire setting the stage for eventual globalization and trade influence of the trans nationals 
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