Siege of Bintan

Battle of Bintan
Part of Malay-Portuguese conflicts
Date1526
Location
Result Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire Sultanate of Bintan
Sultanate of Pahang
Commanders and leaders
  • Tuão Mafamede
Mahmud Shah of Bintan
Mahmud Shah I of Pahang
Unrecorded allied ruler[1]
Strength
1 galleon
3 carracks
2 caravels
1 galley
1 half-galley
5 light-galleys
2 armed batels
600 Portuguese soldiers
300 Malay auxiliaries
Unrecorded number of sailors and combat slaves
30,000 men[2]
20 oarships[3]
Sultan of Pahang:
30 oarships[4]
2,000 men[4]
Casualties and losses
Few Unknown

The siege of Bintan of 1526 was a military operation in which Portuguese forces successfully sieged, assaulted and destroyed the city of Bintan (Bintão, in Portuguese), capital of the former Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah.

  1. ^ Correia, 1862, 86
  2. ^ Gaspar Correia, Lendas da Índia 1862 edition, tome III, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, p.86
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference monteiro2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Correia, 1862, p.85