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ANDRADA (Rui Freire de). COMENTÁRIOS do Grande Capitão Rui Freire de Andrada. Lisboa. 1940. - ANDRADA (Rui Freire de) COMENTÁRIOS do Grande Capitão Rui Freire de Andrada . Introdução por José Gervásio Leite. Lisboa: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1940. XII, 376 pp., 2 mapas: il.; 230 mm. A reissue, with an introduction by José Gervásio Leite, of the Commentaries of the great captain Ruy Freyre de Andrada , first published in Lisbon by Paulo Craesbeeck in 1647, a now rare edition. They recount Rui Freire de Andrade's campaigns in the Persian Gulf from 1619 onwards, during one of the most critical periods of the Portuguese presence in the East. The narrative follows the expedition sent to defend Hormuz from the Persian threat, the construction of the fortress of Cheshmere, the Anglo-Persian alliance that led to the loss of Hormuz in 1622, and the prolonged war of privateering and reprisals that the captain waged afterward in the Gulf, from Muscat, until his death. An essential source for the history of the Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf and for relations with Safavid Persia and the English East India Company, also known from the English translation by C.R. Boxer (1930). Illustrated with two maps. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate