d'alburque bombarded the town and terrified the inhabitants, being the first time it had ever been shelled by heavy artillery  itu rejimen melayu melaka tak buat life fire training ke? apasal mahu jimat bom?

http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/port1.htm

sultan had 20,000 mercenaries, 20 war elephant, 3000 artillery pieces of small calibre guns with little range and firepower. kenapa takde ask for refund dari ottoman sama ming? itu sultan sudah kena tipu oleh salesgirl lah 

sultan forces charged at them with bow and arrow, blowpipe, lances, spear and shield. apa ni?! nampaknya itu cannon sama matchlock is for ceremonial purpose 

other than the traitor element, seems most fellas there has no stomach for war. life mus be really good then 
http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/port1.htm
attack on the bridge began, as soon as the first fury of the malay artillery was spent. the trumpets blew and the portuguese fell upon the malay stockade on the bridge. seriously they got no tactical planning and the fancy weapons r for show off, hmmm..... does tis script sound familiar 

But to call it a crusade is just mind blowing

It is clear that European countries that time want to spread gospel

But to call it as crusade, meh.

Just like when the first crusades was called, to stop the fightings among the Christian kings in Western Europe.

Pope just want two of his remaining loyal Catholic country to make peace.

But Portugal use superior geography knowledge to trick huge chunk of South America, Brazil from Spain. This teach us that knowledge is important and
Don't always look at rear view mirror and engage in self serving fantasy of past glory.

yang menghairankan mana pergi China time tu ? kalau China datang tolong mesti Melaka ada Sultan sampai sekarang

Well during that time only few german kingdoms and other smaller principalities were Protestants while major kingdoms including England were still Catholic.

Actually china destroyed the Portuguese armada in South China Sea, and dealing with the ambassadors brother Simao, ended up whole Portuguese population in China executed.

And already building armada halfway when Ming dynasty have bigger problems up north and civil war, thus the expedition to malacca was cancelled, the Portuguese armadas destruction caused Albuquerque to panic LEL

See my edited/added reply on that post.

Doesn't it also coincides with the time when China had their 'close-door' policy (or whatever it's called) ?

Using the Portugese as the go-between for the trade between China and Japan right ? Since both China and Japan were not on nice term at that time.

Never heard of this naval battle. source please. Wikipedia no mention also

Depends on how one defines a crusade.

Some people only think Crusades in term of Christian vs Islam conflict but crusades has been called against others too. The Portugal and Spanish 'crusades' were continuation of of their earlier reconquista, which is the crusades to take (some people like to call it re-take but I digest) the lands from the muslim kingdom in the Iberian peninsular. The reason I use take rather than re-take because when the Rabs conquered Spain, they were under the Visigoth who happened to be the Arian (I think modern Christians called them a heretical sect ?) primarily though some, like the Toledo converted to Roman Catholicism.

So once that part of the mission is complete, the crusades then expand outwards.

Maybe the Pope did not call it a crusade, because the spirit of the crusades has died after the fall of the last Frankish kingdom in the Levant so by calling it a crusade (like have been done by few popes before) might just fall on deaf ears.

I don't read much about that part except those involves the Sengoku Jidai. Might have read that up sometimes. Any good sources ? Online preferably lah.

Oda Nobunaga

fellow historians,

Since now we are touching japanese adi.

1) Why is there animosity between china and japan until to-date?

2) Who cause more trouble to each other?

Seem like these has been on-going for centuries!

Well the invasion of Korea/China was the final events that started with the invasion of Korea by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_inva...592%E2%80%9398)
The invasions were launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the intent of conquering Korea and China, which were ruled by the Joseon and Ming dynasties, respectively. Japan quickly succeeded in occupying large portions of the Korean Peninsula, but the contribution of reinforcements by the Ming Dynasty,[21] as well as the disruption of Japanese supply fleets along the western and southern coasts by the Joseon Navyforced a withdrawal of Japanese forces from Pyongyang and the northern provinces to the south, where the Japanese continued to occupy Hanseong (present-day Seoul) and the southern regions except the southwestern Jeolla province.

Turnbull, Stephen (Nov 20, 2012). The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592-98
Perez, Louis (2013). Japan At War: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.