The siege of Jeddah was a naval battle that took place in the harbor of Jeddah between a Portuguese expeditionary force under Lopo Soares de Albergaria and Ottoman elements under Selman Reis.[5] The Portuguese fleet arrived off the city’s coast on Easter day, 1517 (12 April), Hijri year 923, and moored in the channel.[6] After a quick naval action that day with few casualties, shore artillery prevented the Portuguese from landing, and weather ultimately caused them to withdraw.[7]
^Conquistadores, Mercenaries, and Missionaries: The Failed Portuguese Dominion of the Red Sea’, Northeast African...Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, p. 8
^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. 51
^Serjeant, R. B. (1974). The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast: Hadramī chronicles, with Yemeni and European accounts of Dutch pirates of mocha in the seventeenth century. Librairie du Liban. 50-51, citing al-Shiḥrī
^Meloy, J. L. (2010). Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. 223.
^Meloy, J. L. (2010). Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. 223, citing Gaspar Correa’s Lendas da India