Mahmud Shah of Malacca Mahmud Shah I of Pahang Unrecorded allied ruler[1]
Strength
1 galleon 3 carracks 2 caravels 1 galley 1 half-galley 5 light-galleys 2 armed batels 600 Portuguese soldiers 300 Malay auxiliaries Unrecorded number of sailors and combat slaves
30,000 men[2] 20 oarships[3] Sultan of Pahang: 30 oarships[4] 2,000 men[4]
Casualties and losses
Few
Unknown
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The siege of Bintan of 1526 was a military operation in which Portuguese forces successfully sieged, assaulted and destroyed the city of Bintan (Bintão, in Portuguese), capital of the former Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah.
^Correia, 1862, 86
^Gaspar Correia, Lendas da Índia 1862 edition, tome III, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, p.86
^Cite error: The named reference monteiro2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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