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Could Edward Montagu take control of Tangier before the Spanish or Dutch landed?
January 1662, Tangier Bay, Admiral Edward Montagu, (Narrative History)
Edward Montagu breathed a huge sigh and smiled with satisfaction.
He invited the messenger into his cabin, called for two glasses of the best Madeira Malbec and slit the seal open.
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He knew the content of the single sheet of paper before he had read it. His patience had been rewarded and at last the intransigent governor of Tangier had been brought to heel by his own stupidity. The curt note brought by the messenger from Luis de Almeda, the Portuguese Governor of Tangier, invited Montagu to send a party of marines to reinforce the depleted city garrison, accepting an offer he had made some weeks ago[1].
The invitation marked a great step forward for England and for the monarchy of Charles II - the beginning of the occupation of Tangier, and the achievement of an ambition he had formed some three