Lourenço de Almeida Samorin Date March 1506 | None A few dozen ships Location Kannur | |
Result Decisive Portuguese victory Similar Battle of Chaul, Battle of the Gulf of Oman, Battle of Cochin, Second Siege of Diu, Ottoman campaign against H | ||
The Battle of Cannanore took place in 1506 off the harbour of Cannanore in India, between the Indian fleet of the Samorin and a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida, son of the Viceroy Almeida.
The Indian fleet, consisting of about 200 ships equipped with cannons manufactured with the help of two Milanese Italians, was manned by Hindu, Arab and Turkish crews. Soldiers from the Ottoman Empire participated on the Indian side.
This encounter ended in a Portuguese victory. It was followed by another Portuguese success at the siege of Cannanore in 1507, but then a Portuguese defeat at the Battle of Chaul in 1508.
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