Battle of Suez (1541)
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The Battle of Suez occurred in 1541 and was a failed attack by the Portuguese against the Ottomans.[1][2]
In 1541 the Portuguese fleet under the command of the Portuguese governor of India Estêvão da Gama and his brother Cristóvão da Gama penetrated into the Red Sea.[3] The Portuguese fleet consisted of 80 ships and 2,300 soldiers.[1] After sacking Suakin, the governor detached 16 light oarvessels and 250 picked men.[4] The aim was to attack Suez but the attack was a failure as the heavy defence as well as the opposition of Davud Pasha and the Ottoman artillery forced the Portuguese to retreat.[2][1][5][3] A few retreating Portuguese forces which landed at Massawa would be ambushed by the Adal Sultanate at the Battle of Massawa in the same year.[6]
For the duration of the 1541 Suez campaign, the Portuguese remained within the Red Sea for seven months, never being confronted by the Ottoman navy, while Muslim trade was paralized.[7]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Özbaran, Salih. Portekizli seyyahlar: İran, Türkiye, Irak, Suriye ve Mısır yollarında. Turkey: Kitap Yayınevi, 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Orhonlu, Cengiz. Osmanlı imparatorluğun̓un güney siyaseti Habeş eyaleti. Turkey: Edebiyat Fakültesi Matbaası, 1974.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Peacock, A. C. S. "The Ottoman Empire and the Indian Ocean." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. 2018.
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