Siege of Cannanore (1507)

Siege of Cannanore (1507)
Part of the First Luso-Malabarese War

St. Angelo Fort in Cannanore
Date27 April – 27 August 1507
(4 months)
Location
Cannanore, India
Result Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire Kōlattunād
Calicut
Commanders and leaders
Lourenço de Brito Kolathiri
Samorin
Strength
2 ships
150 soldiers[1]		 21 cannons
40,000 Nāyars
20,000 men from the Zamorin.[2]

The siege of Cannanore was a four-month siege, from 27 April 1507 to 27 August 1507, when troops of the local ruler (the Kōlattiri Raja of Cannanore), supported by the Zamorin of Calicut and Arabs, besieged the Portuguese garrison at St. Angelo Fort in Cannanore, in what is now the Indian state of Kerala. It followed the Battle of Cannanore, in which the fleet of the Zamorin was defeated by the Portuguese.[3]

  1. ^ K. M. Mathew (1988). History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497–1600. Mittal Publications. p. 165. ISBN 81-7099-046-7.
  2. ^ Malabar manual William Logan p.315
  3. ^ Malabar manual by William Logan p.314