List of battles involving Portugal east of the Cape of Good Hope explained

This is a list of articles dedicated to military actions involving the Portuguese east of the Cape of Good Hope, in Africa or in Asia, on land or at sea, between the 16th and 20th centuries.

16th century

• • 1501 - First Battle of Cannanore 1503 - Battle of Calicut
• 1504 - Battle of Pandarane, Battle of Cochin
• 1506 - Second Battle of Cannanore, Siege of Angediva
• 1507 - Battle of Barawa, Portuguese conquest of Ormuz, Siege of Cannanore
• 1508 - Battle of Chaul, Battle of Dabul
• 1509 - Battle of Diu
• 1510 - Portuguese conquest of Goa^[1]
  • 1511 - Portuguese conquest of Malacca 1513 - Siege of Aden
  • 1517 - Siege of Jeddah 1521 - Battle of Aceh (1521)
• 1521 - Attack on Bintan (1521), Battle of Tamão, Portuguese invasion of Bahrain
  • 1522 - Battle of Veniaga Island 1522 - Pedir expedition (1522)
• 1523 - Battle of Muar River
• 1524 - Acehnese conquest of Pasai
  • 1525 - Battle of Lingga 1526 - Siege of Bintan, Siege of Calicut
• 1527 - Conquest of Sunda Kelapa
• 1528 - Battle of Aceh (1528)
• 1529 - Siege of Bahrain (1529)
• 1531 - Siege of Diu^[2]
  • 1535 - Battle of Ugentana 1536 - Second Battle of Ugentana
• 1538 - Siege of Diu
• 1541 - Battle of Suakin,^{[3] [4]} Battle of El Tor,^{[5] [6]} Battle of Suez (1541)^[7]
• 1542 - Battle of Benadir, Battle of Baçente, Battle of Jarte, Battle of the Hill of the Jews, Battle of Wofla
• 1542 - Battle of Wayna Daga^[8]
• 1545 - Attack on Jailolo
• 1546 - Siege of Diu
• 1547 - Battle of Perlis River
• 1548 - Aden Revolt, Battle of Ash-Shihr
• 1551 - Siege of Qatif^{[9] [10]}
• 1552 - Battle of Muscat
• 1553 - Battle of the Strait of Hormuz
• 1554 - Battle of the Gulf of Oman
• 1557 - Siege of Kotte
• 1559 - Siege of Bahrain,^[11] Battle of Mulleriyawa
• 1560 - First Jaffna Campaign^{[12] [13]}
• 1561 - Siege of Moji^{[14] [15]}
• 1565 - Battle of Fukuda Bay^{[16] [17] [18]}
• 1568 - Siege of Malacca^[19]
• 1569 - Battle of Aceh^{[20] [21]}
• 1571 - Siege of Chaliyam^{[22] [23]}
• 1581 - Siege of Daman (1581)^{[24] [25]}
• 1586 - Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589)
• 1586 - Battle of Leitao coast
• 1587 - Siege of Johor
• 1591 - Second Jaffna Campaign^[26]
• 1594 - Campaign of Danture
• 1599 - Siege of Kottakkal

17th century

• • 1601 - Battle of Bantam 1606 - Aceh expedition (1606), Siege of Malacca, Battle of Cape Rachado
    • 1610 - Nossa Senhora da Graça incident 1612 - Battle of Swally, Kandyan commerce raiding against Portugal (1612–1613) 1615 - Battle of Formoso River
  • 1619 - Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom 1620 - Battle of Perak River
• 1622 - Anglo-Persian capture of Ormuz, Battle of Macau
• 1625 - Action of 1 February 1625
• 1629 - Battle of Duyon River^[27]
• 1630 - Battle of Randeniwela
• 1632 - Siege of Hooghly
• 1633-1643 - Siege of Sohar
• 1638 - Battle of Gannoruwa, Battle of Goa (1638), Siege of Daman (1638-1639)^{[28] [29] [30]}
• 1639 - Action of 30 September 1639
• 1640 - Siege of Galle
• 1641 - Siege of Malacca
  • 1654 - Action of 23 March 1654, Action of 2 May 1654 1682 - Siege of Goa
• 1693 - Battle of Bassein
• 1694 - Battle of Daman
• 1696-1698 - Siege of Mombasa

18th century

• 1704 - Battle of Surat
• 1738 - Battle of Vasai
• 1746 - Siege of Alorna,^{[31] [32] [33] [34]} Siege of Tiracol^{[35] [36] [37]}
• 1752 - Battle of Calicut

19th century

• 1809–1810 - Battle of the Tiger's Mouth^[38]
• 1846 - Revolt of the Faitiões^[39]
• 1849 - Passaleão incident^{[40] [41]}

20th century

• 1942–1943 - Battle of Timor
• 1961 - Annexation of Goa
• 1964–1974 - Mozambican War of Independence

See also

• Portuguese Empire
• Portuguese India
• Military history of Portugal

Notes and References

1. Geneviève Bouchon, (2014) Albuquerque: Le Lion des Mers d'Asie, Paris, Éditions Desjonquères, p. 168
2. Frederick Charles Denvers: The Portuguese in India, W.H. Allen & Company, 1894, p. 402.
3. Danvers, Frederick Charles (1894). The Portuguese in India: A.D. 1481-1571. W.H. Allen & Company, limited, p.447
4. J. F. E. Bloss, The Story Of Suakin, Sudan Notes and Records, Vol. 19 No. 2 1936, pp.271-300". -: J. F. E. Bloss, 'The Story Of Suakin', Sudan Notes and Records, Vol. 19 No. 2 1936, pp.271-300,
5. Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume III 1539-1579, Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, 1992, pp. 39–41
6. Gaspar Correia: Lendas da Índia book IV, tome IV, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciências, p. 184.
7. Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India: A.D. 1481-1571 .H. Allen & Company, 1894, p.449.
8. Richard Stephen Whiteway (ed.). The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as Narrated by Castanhoso. Hakluyt Society. Pp. 77-82.
9. Frederick Charles Denvers: The Portuguese in India p. 492.
10. Manuel de Faria e Sousa: Ásia Portuguesa part II, tome II, chapter IX, p. 253.
11. Svat Soucek (2008): The Portuguese and Turks in the Persian Gulf in Revisiting Hormuz: Portuguese Interactions in the Persian Gulf Region in the Early Modern Period, pp. 36-37.
12. Pieris, P. E. (1920). Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505–1658. Asian Educational Services. p. 314. ISBN 8120613724.
13. De Queyroz, Fernão (1930). The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon (in Portuguese). Vol. I. Translated by Perera, S.G. A.C. Richards. p. 392. ISBN 978-81-206-0765-1.
14. Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 215,266–269
15. Samurai - The World of the Warrior Stephen Turnbull, p.104-105.
16. Boxer, C. R. (1951). The Christian Century in Japan: 1549–1650. University of California Press, pp. 96-99
17. Boxer, C. R. (1948). Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 33-37.
18. Hesselink, Reinier H. (2015). The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640. McFarland. ISBN 9780786499618. PP. 38.
19. Tony Jaques (1 January 2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 620–. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9.
20. Armando de Saturnino Monteiro (1992), Portuguese Sea Battles - Volume III - From Brazil to Japan 1539-1579 pp. 315-317.
21. Diogo do Couto (1673) Da Ásia, Decade VIII, chapter XXX.
22. Logan, William (1887). Malabar Manual. Superintendent, Government Press (Madras. p. 334.
23. Ayyar, K.V Krishna (1938). The Zamorins of Calicut. p. 206.
24. Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, A.D. 1571-1894, Being A History of the Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire, W.H. Allen & Company, limited, 1894, pp.42-43.
25. Diogo do Couto: Da Asia, volume 20, decade I, part I, Regia Officina Typographica, 1786 edition, pp. 184-198.
26. De Queyroz, Fernão (1930). The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon (in Portuguese). Vol. II. Translated by Perera, S.G. A.C. Richards. p. 810.
27. Monteiro, Saturnino (2012). Portuguese Sea Battles Volumve VI, pp. 34-46.
28. Ignacio Barbosa Machado: Fastos Politicos, e Militares da Antigua, e Nova Lusitania, Officina de Ignacio Rodrigues, 1745, pp.681-682.
29. M. S. Commissariat: Mandelslo's Travels In Western India, Asian Educational Services, 1995, p.57.
30. Sir Charles Fawcett: The Travels of the Abbarrn India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674 Hakluyt Society, London, 1947, p.167.
31. Manoel A. de Meirelles: Relação da conquista das praças de Alorna, Bicholim, Avaro, Morly, Satarem, Tiracol, e Rary pelo Pedro Miguel de Almeida e Portugal, Coelho Amado, 1747, pp. 14-25.
32. Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, W.H. Allen & Company, 1894, pp.420-421.
33. William Wilson Hunter: The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1885, Volume 5, Trübner & Company, p. 164.
34. José Nicolau da Fonseca: An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa: Preceded by a Short Statistical Account of the Territory of Goa Asian Educational Services, 1986, p. 86.
35. Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa 1139-1975, volume II, 1996, Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, p.161-163
36. Manoel A. de Meirelles: Relação da conquista das praças de Alorna, Bicholim, Avaro, Morly, Satarem, Tiracol, e Rary pelo Pedro Miguel de Almeida e Portugal, Coelho Amado, 1747, pp. 35-39.
37. E. Rehatsek: Historical Sketch of Portuguese India in The Calcutta Review Volume 73, 1881, p.341.
38. Monteiro, Saturnino. Portuguese Sea Battles Volume VIII: Downfall of the Empire 1808-1975 (2013 ed.). Lisbon. pp. 29-39.
39. Garrett, Richard J. (2010). The Defences of Macau: Forts, Ships and Weapons over 450 Years. Hong Kong University Press. Pp. 70-71.
40. Garrett, Richard J. (2010). The Defences of Macau: Forts, Ships and Weapons over 450 Years. Pp. 70–74.
41. Montalto de Jesus, Carlos Augusto (1894). "Macao's Deeds of Arms" (PDF). The China Review. Hong Kong: China Mail Office. 21 (3): p. 158.