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When a Portuguese Fleet Burned 400 Pilgrims Alive at Sea

In one of the darkest moments of the early Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean, a fleet commanded by Vasco da Gama intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of Muslim pilgrims returning from Mecca. The vessel, later known in chronicles as the Miri (pilgrim ship), carried men, women, and children across the waters of the Indian Ocean. Instead of sparing them, the fleet looted the ship and set it ablaze, trapping hundreds on board in an act that horrified even some contemporaries. The massacre revealed the brutal realities behind the struggle for dominance over trade routes during the Age of Discovery, when empire, religion, and wealth collided on the open sea. #darkhistory #ageofdiscovery #vascodagama #maritimehistory #forgottenhistory #historicalhorror #truehistory #indianoceanhistory #darkpast #historydocumentary