Re: [Goanet] Goans in India's Defence Services

[Albert Godin]

Please allow me to make  an observation: Charles Zuzarte retired as an 
Air Commodore in the  Pakistan Airforce, twice decorated... his elder 
brother, Air Commodore Hilary Zuzarte, retired, was also decorated.

> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:33:26 -0500
> From: Goanet Blog

> On India's 62nd Republic Day let us re-visit Valmiki Faleiro's
> poignant column on "Goans in India's Defence Services".
>
>
> GOANS IN INDIA'S DEFENCE SERVICES
> By Valmiki Faleiro
>
> Goans, and Goan Catholics in particular, always had this fascination
> for adventure. Right from the General in a Deccani army in the 17th
> century, to Manuel Antonio de Souza (1835-1904), of Mapusa, who
> created and reigned over his own country with an army of 30,000 men,
> by the right bank of the Zambezi, in far away Mozambique! Down to
> dozens of officers in the armed forces of Portugal, Britain and any
> nation of domicile, even . hold your breath . now Australia-settled
> Wg Cdr Zuzarte of the Pakistan Air Force!