Battle of Duyon River

Battle of Duyon River
Part of Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts

1635 Portuguese watercolour sketch of the 1629 Acehnese attack on Malacca
DateJune – December 1629
Location
Portuguese Malacca
Result Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portugal Portuguese Empire Aceh Sultanate Sultanate of Aceh
Commanders and leaders
Portugal Nuno Álvares Botelho
Portugal António Pinto da Fonseca		 Aceh Sultanate Laksamana (?) (POW)
Aceh Sultanate Marraja
Strength
1,260 Portuguese soldiers
400 auxiliaries
4 brigantines
28 galleys
2,000 Pahang warriors
60 vessels of Pahang
 236 ships
19,000 men[1]
Casualties and losses
60 dead[2] All ships captured or destroyed[3]
All men killed or captured[3][4][5]
170 heavy artillery pieces captured[6]
the Laksamana captured[7]

The Battle of Duyon River was a naval engagement between the Portuguese forces commanded by Nuno Álvares Botelho, who is renowned in Portugal as one of the last great commanders of Portuguese India, and the forces of the Sultanate of Aceh, which were led by the Laksamana.

The relatively modest Portuguese fleet achieved an absolute victory over the Ottoman-allied Aceh in that not a single ship or man of the invading force sent to conquer Malacca returned to their country. The Sultanate of Perak, a vassal of the Sultanate of Aceh, defected to the Portuguese side after the battle.

  1. ^ Monteiro, Saturnino (2012). Portuguese Sea Battles Volumve VI. ISBN 978-989-96836-5-5
  2. ^ Monteiro, 2012, p. 47
  3. ^ a b Kaushik Roy (2014) Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750 Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships, Bloomsbury Publishing, p.157.
  4. ^ Danvers, 1894, p. 232.
  5. ^ Monteiro, 2012, p. 47
  6. ^ Monteiro, 2012, p. 46
  7. ^ Monteiro, 2012, p. 47