Battle of Mombasa (1505)

Battle of Mombasa 1505
Part of Portuguese Battles in the East

Mombaza, in Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, 1572.
Date15 August 1505[1]
Location
Mombasa, east Africa
Result Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire Mombasa
Commanders and leaders
Dom Francisco de Almeida Sultan of Mombasa
Strength
13 ships.[2] Unknown
Casualties and losses
2 dead.[1] Heavy

The Battle of Mombasa in 1505 was a military engagement between Portuguese forces under the command of the first Viceroy of India Dom Francisco de Almeida and the Sultanate of Mombasa. The Portuguese staged a landing and sacked the city on the occasion.

  1. ^ a b Albericus Vespuccius: The Voyage from Lisbon to India, 1505-6, London, B. F. Stevens, 1894, XIX.
  2. ^ Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, volume I, W. H. Allen & Co. Limited, London, 1894, p. 119.