Naval battle between the Mamluks and the Portuguese
Battle of Chaul (1508)
Part of Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts and Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts
Portuguese ships, 16th century
Date
March 1508
Location
Chaul, India
Result
Mamluk victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire
Mamluk Sultanate Gujarat Sultanate Calicut
Commanders and leaders
Lourenço de Almeida †
Amir Husain Al-Kurdi Malik Ayyaz Mayimama Marakkar †[1]
Strength
3 ships and 5 caravels[2]
6 Egyptian carracks and 6 great galleys, 1500 combatants[3] 40 Gujarat Sultanate galleys
Casualties and losses
6 ships[2] 140 men
600-700[4]
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Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts
Chaul (1508)
Diu (1509)
Jeddah (1517)
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Portuguese battles in the Indian Ocean
Cannanore (1501)
Calicut (1503)
Pandarane (1504)
Cochin (1504)
Mombasa (1505)
Cannanore (1506)
Anjadiva (1506)
Barawa (1507)
Socotra (1507)
Hormuz (1507)
Cannanore (1507)
Chaul (1508)
Dabul (1508)
Diu (1509)
Goa (1510)
Malacca (1511)
Aden (1513)
Jeddah (1517)
Goa (1517)
Zeila (1517)
Pago (1520)
Aceh (1521)
Bahrain (1521)
Bintan (1521)
Pedir (1522)
Ash-Shihr (1523)
Muar river (1523)
Pasai (1523–24)
Lingga (1525)
Calicut (1526)
Mombasa (1528)
Aceh (1528)
Bahrain (1529)
Diu (1531)
Ugentana (1535)
Ugentana (1536)
Diu (1538)
Suakin (1541)
Jeddah (1541)
El Tor (1541)
Suez (1541)
Benadir (1542)
Diu (1546)
Perlis River (1547)
Aden (1548)
Al-Shihr (1548)
Qatif (1551)
Malacca (1551)
Muscat (1552)
Strait of Hormuz (1553)
Gulf of Oman (1554)
Bahrain (1559)
Jaffna (1560)
Malacca (1568)
Aceh (1569)
Muscat (1581)
Daman (1581)
Leitao Coast (1586)
Johor (1587)
Jaffna (1591)
Kottakkal (1599–1600)
Bantam (1601)
Aceh (1606)
Malacca (1606)
Cape Rachado (1606)
Swally (1612)
Gulf of Mannar (1612–13)
Cambarão (1614)
Formoso River (1615)
Jaffna (1619)
Qeshm (1621–22)
Hormuz (1622)
Persian Gulf (1625)
Langat River (1628)
Duyon River (1629)
Hooghly (1632)
Julfar (1633)
Sohar (1633–1643)
Goa (1638)
Daman (1638–39)
Mormugão (1639)
Malacca (1641)
Muscat (1650)
Colombo (1654)
Colombo (1654)
Mombasa (1696–98)
Surat (1704)
Calicut (1752)
Portuguese colonial campaigns
The Battle of Chaul was a naval battle between the Portuguese and an Egyptian Mamluk fleet in 1508 in the harbour of Chaul in India. The battle ended in a Mamluk victory. It followed the Siege of Cannanore in which a Portuguese garrison successfully resisted an attack by Southern Indian rulers. This was the first Portuguese defeat at sea in the Indian Ocean.[2]
^Rise of Portuguese Power in India, 1497-1550 R.S. Whiteway p. 93
^ abcCite error: The named reference Padfield was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415–1580 by Bailey Wallys Diffie p.232 [1]
^"Conquerors; How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first Global Empire" by Roger Crowley p.219
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