Diogo de Meneses, c. 1520 - 1580. Portuguese military officer and governor of India from 1576 - 1578. He was executed by the 3rd Duke of Alba after

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Diogo de Meneses, c. 1520 - 1580. Portuguese military officer and governor of India from 1576 - 1578. He was executed by the 3rd Duke of Alba after Spanish troops took Cascais in 1580 during the Portuguese Succession Crisis. This statue stands in Cascais, Portuguese Riviera, Portugal.

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