_ 390 _ In the same year (1560 His Excellency the Ambassador in Rome, Lorenzo Perez de Tavora sent a letter to D. Sebastiao, Rome, on the 5th of March 1560, mentioning that the Turks who occupied Bahrain had been expelled:(44) Sir, On 14 February, I wrote at length to Your Highness about all that has happened in the matter of Pombeiro and the legateship, and also what is known by letters from the Levant about the fleet in Suez. On the 17th of the same month. I sent a letter through Dom Francisco Pereira with another from Tomás de Cornoça, reporting that the Turks who had occupied the island of Bahrain in the strait of Ormuz had been driven out by Your Highness's fleet with the loss of more than a thousand of the enemy. (44) Document no. and reference.
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