Battle off Hormuz (1625)

Battle of Hormuz (1625)
	; Batalha Naval de Ormuz, by João Dantas, c. 1812.
Date	11–12 February 1625
Location	Strait of Hormuz
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
Portuguese Estado da Índia	English East India Company; Dutch East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Nuno Álvares Botelho ; Rui Freire de Andrada	John Weddell; Albert Becker
Strength
8 galleons ; 20 light galleys ; 20 terranquins	8 carracks ; 2 pataches
Casualties and losses
130 killed	29 English killed; 45 Dutch killed

The battle of Hormuz or the battle of the Persian Gulf^[1]^[2] on 11–12 February 1625 was "perhaps the largest naval battle ever fought in the Persian Gulf".^[3] It pitted a Portuguese force against a combined force of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and English East India Company (EIC). Although the battle was a draw, the result was the loss of Portuguese influence in the Gulf.^[3]

^ "Combates Navais". Marinha Portuguesa. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
^ Armando da Silva Saturnino Monteiro (1994), Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa (1604-1625) (PDF) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Livraria Sá da Costa.
^ ^a ^b Willem Floor, "Dutch Relations with the Persian Gulf", in Lawrence G. Potter (ed.), The Persian Gulf in History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 240.

[1] "Combates Navais". Marinha Portuguesa. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2023.

[2] Armando da Silva Saturnino Monteiro (1994), Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa (1604-1625) (PDF) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Livraria Sá da Costa.

[WF-3] Willem Floor, "Dutch Relations with the Persian Gulf", in Lawrence G. Potter (ed.), The Persian Gulf in History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 240.

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