| Battle of Mombasa 1505 | |||||||
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| Part of Portuguese Battles in the East | |||||||
&sq=engine&lang=en&file=File:Braun_Mombasa_UBHD.jpg) Mombaza, in Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, 1572. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Portuguese Empire | Mombasa | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Dom Francisco de Almeida | Sultan of Mombasa | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 13 ships.[2] | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 2 dead.[1] | Heavy | ||||||
The Battle of Mombasa in 1505 was a military engagement between Portuguese forces under the command of the first Viceroy of India Dom Francisco de Almeida and the Sultanate of Mombasa. The Portuguese staged a landing and sacked the city on the occasion.
- ^ a b Albericus Vespuccius: The Voyage from Lisbon to India, 1505-6, London, B. F. Stevens, 1894, XIX.
- ^ Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, volume I, W. H. Allen & Co. Limited, London, 1894, p. 119.