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How much separation was there between the Ottoman Navy in the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Navy in the Indian Ocean? Did ships sail around Africa or were transported across the Isthmus of Suez?
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I read that when Napoleon attacked in 1796, the Republic of Venice had hardly any military left to defend itself. How come Venice hadn't already lost Dalmatia to the Ottomans or Lombardy-Venetia to the Habsburgs by then?
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In pre-Napoleonic Europe, how did countries/dynasties effectively control and defend faraway exclaves?
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