Siege of Jeddah information

Siege of Jeddah
	Part of the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war,; Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations
Date	12 April 1517
Location	Jeddah, Arabia and the Red Sea
Result	Mamluk-Ottoman victory End of Portuguese fleets in the Red Sea; Annexation of Jeddah by the Ottomans; End of the Mamluk regime;
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Ottoman Empire; Mamluks
Commanders and leaders
Lopo Soares de Albergaria	Selman Reis; Amir Husain Al-Kurdi
Strength
36 to 43 sails (15 naus), 1,800 to 5,400 men	19 ships, 3,000 soldiers (including 1,300 Turks)
Casualties and losses
2 or 3 ships destroyed	1 ship partially damaged due to accident fire

The siege of Jeddah was a naval battle that took place in the harbor of Jeddah between a Portuguese expeditionary force under Lopo Soares de Albergaria and Ottoman elements under Selman Reis.^[5] The Portuguese fleet arrived off the city’s coast on Easter day, 1517 (12 April), Hijri year 923, and moored in the channel.^[6] After a quick naval action that day with few casualties, shore artillery prevented the Portuguese from landing, and weather ultimately caused them to withdraw.^[7]

^ Conquistadores, Mercenaries, and Missionaries: The Failed Portuguese Dominion of the Red Sea’, Northeast African...Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, p. 8
^ An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 1" by Halil İnalcik p.321ff
^ R.B.Serjeant, The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast: Ḥaḍramī Chronicles, with Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates Off Mocha in the Seventeenth Century, 1963, Clarendon Press, p. 51
^ R.B.Serjeant, p. 51
^ Serjeant, R. B. (1974). The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast: Hadramī chronicles, with Yemeni and European accounts of Dutch pirates of mocha in the seventeenth century. Librairie du Liban. 50-51, citing al-Shiḥrī
^ Meloy, J. L. (2010). Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. 223.
^ Meloy, J. L. (2010). Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. 223, citing Gaspar Correa’s Lendas da India

[1] Conquistadores, Mercenaries, and Missionaries: The Failed Portuguese Dominion of the Red Sea’, Northeast African...Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, p. 8

[İnalcik_321-2] An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 1" by Halil İnalcik p.321ff

[3] R.B.Serjeant, The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast: Ḥaḍramī Chronicles, with Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates Off Mocha in the Seventeenth Century, 1963, Clarendon Press, p. 51

[4] R.B.Serjeant, p. 51

[:0-5] Serjeant, R. B. (1974). The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast: Hadramī chronicles, with Yemeni and European accounts of Dutch pirates of mocha in the seventeenth century. Librairie du Liban. 50-51, citing al-Shiḥrī

[:1-6] Meloy, J. L. (2010). Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. 223.

[7] Meloy, J. L. (2010). Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. 223, citing Gaspar Correa’s Lendas da India

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