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 1505 - Sack of Kilwa, Battle of Mombasa (1505) 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 GoaGeneviève Bouchon, (2014) Albuquerque: Le Lion des Mers d'Asie, Paris, Éditions Desjonquères, p. 168 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 1528 - Battle of Aceh (1528) 1529 - Siege of Bahrain (1529) 1531 - Siege of DiuFrederick Charles Denvers: The Portuguese in India, W.H. Allen & Company, 1894, p. 402. 1535 - Battle of Ugentana 1536 - Second Battle of Ugentana 1538 - Siege of Diu 1541 - Battle of Suakin,Danvers, Frederick Charles (1894). The Portuguese in India: A.D. 1481-1571. W.H. Allen & Company, limited, p.447J. 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, Battle of El Tor,Saturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa Volume III 1539-1579, Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, 1992, pp. 39–41Gaspar Correia: Lendas da Índia book IV, tome IV, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciências, p. 184. Battle of Suez (1541)Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India: A.D. 1481-1571 .H. Allen & Company, 1894, p.449. 1542 - Battle of Benadir, Battle of Baçente, Battle of Jarte, Battle of the Hill of the Jews, Battle of Wofla 1542 - Battle of Wayna DagaRichard Stephen Whiteway (ed.). The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as Narrated by Castanhoso. Hakluyt Society. Pp. 77-82. 1545 - Attack on Jailolo 1546 - Siege of Diu 1547 - Battle of Perlis River 1548 - Aden Revolt, Battle of Ash-Shihr 1551 - Siege of QatifFrederick Charles Denvers: The Portuguese in India p. 492.Manuel de Faria e Sousa: Ásia Portuguesa part II, tome II, chapter IX, p. 253. 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,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. Battle of Mulleriyawa 1560 - First Jaffna CampaignPieris, P. E. (1920). Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505–1658. Asian Educational Services. p. 314. ISBN 8120613724.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. 1561 - Siege of MojiTurnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 215,266–269Samurai - The World of the Warrior Stephen Turnbull, p.104-105. 1565 - Battle of Fukuda BayBoxer, C. R. (1951). The Christian Century in Japan: 1549–1650. University of California Press, pp. 96-99Boxer, C. R. (1948). Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 33-37.Hesselink, Reinier H. (2015). The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640. McFarland. ISBN 9780786499618. PP. 38. 1568 - Siege of MalaccaTony Jaques (1 January 2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 620–. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9. 1569 - Battle of AcehArmando de Saturnino Monteiro (1992), Portuguese Sea Battles - Volume III - From Brazil to Japan 1539-1579 pp. 315-317.Diogo do Couto (1673) Da Ásia, Decade VIII, chapter XXX. 1571 - Siege of ChaliyamLogan, William (1887). Malabar Manual. Superintendent, Government Press (Madras. p. 334.Ayyar, K.V Krishna (1938). The Zamorins of Calicut. p. 206. 1581 - Siege of Daman (1581)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.Diogo do Couto: Da Asia, volume 20, decade I, part I, Regia Officina Typographica, 1786 edition, pp. 184-198. 1586 - Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589) 1586 - Battle of Leitao coast 1587 - Siege of Johor 1591 - Second Jaffna CampaignDe Queyroz, Fernão (1930). The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon (in Portuguese). Vol. II. Translated by Perera, S.G. A.C. Richards. p. 810. 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 RiverMonteiro, Saturnino (2012). Portuguese Sea Battles Volumve VI, pp. 34-46. 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)Ignacio Barbosa Machado: Fastos Politicos, e Militares da Antigua, e Nova Lusitania, Officina de Ignacio Rodrigues, 1745, pp.681-682.M. S. Commissariat: Mandelslo's Travels In Western India, Asian Educational Services, 1995, p.57.Sir Charles Fawcett: The Travels of the Abbarrn India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674 Hakluyt Society, London, 1947, p.167. 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,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.Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, W.H. Allen & Company, 1894, pp.420-421.William Wilson Hunter: The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1885, Volume 5, Trübner & Company, p. 164.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. Siege of TiracolSaturnino Monteiro: Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa 1139-1975, volume II, 1996, Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, p.161-163Manoel 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.E. Rehatsek: Historical Sketch of Portuguese India in The Calcutta Review Volume 73, 1881, p.341. 1752 - Battle of Calicut
19th century 1809–1810 - Battle of the Tiger's MouthMonteiro, Saturnino. Portuguese Sea Battles Volume VIII: Downfall of the Empire 1808-1975 (2013 ed.). Lisbon. pp. 29-39. 1846 - Revolt of the FaitiõesGarrett, Richard J. (2010). The Defences of Macau: Forts, Ships and Weapons over 450 Years. Hong Kong University Press. Pp. 70-71. 1849 - Passaleão incidentGarrett, Richard J. (2010). The Defences of Macau: Forts, Ships and Weapons over 450 Years. Pp. 70–74.Montalto de Jesus, Carlos Augusto (1894). "Macao's Deeds of Arms" (PDF). The China Review. Hong Kong: China Mail Office. 21 (3): p. 158.
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
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