Siege of Aden

Siege of Aden

Assault on Aden in 1513, by Gaspar Correia
Date26 March 1513
Location12°46′47″N 45°2′57″E / 12.77972°N 45.04917°E / 12.77972; 45.04917
Result Yemeni Tahirid victory
Belligerents
Tahirid Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Afonso de Albuquerque Amîr Morjan[1]
Strength
20 ships
1,700 Portuguese
800 Malabar natives
Unknown
Casualties and losses
100 or 200 killed.[2] 50 killed.[3]
39 pieces of ordnance captured

The siege of Aden occurred when the Portuguese Governor of India, Afonso de Albuquerque, launched an unsuccessful expedition to capture Aden on 26 March 1513.

  1. ^ Hunter, F. M. (1877). An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia. London: Trübner & Co. p. 162.
  2. ^ 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. 47
  3. ^ R.B.Serjeant p. 47