Siege of Kottakkal

Siege of Kottakkal
Part of Portuguese Battles in the East
DateSeptember 1, 1599 - 16 March 1600
Location
Malabar Coast, India
Result Portuguese-Zamorin victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire
Kingdom of Calicut		 Kunjali Marakkar
Commanders and leaders
André Furtado de Mendonça Mohammed Ali Kunjali Marakkar IV[1]
Strength
4 galleys, 80 light galleys, 5 manchuas, 8 piriches, 2000 soldiers.[2]
6000 nayars.[2][1]		 1500 warriors[2]
Casualties and losses
Few dead[2] All men killed or captured. Kunjali captured.[2]

The siege of Kottakkal also known as the battle of Cunhale River (batalha do rio do Cunhale in Portuguese) was a military engagement between the joint forces of the Portuguese Empire and the Zamorin of Calicut against the stronghold of Kunjali Marakkar (Cunhale in Portuguese) Kottakkal called by the Portuguese Forte Branco ("White Fort").[1][3]

  1. ^ a b c Philip MacDougall: Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India, 1660-1800, Boydell Press, 2014, p. 19.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference monteiro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kaushik Roy, 2015, Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE, Taylor & Francis, p. 197.