Siege of Cannanore (1507) | |||||||
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Part of the First Luso-Malabarese War | |||||||
St. Angelo Fort in Cannanore | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Portuguese Empire |
Kōlattunād Calicut | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Lourenço de Brito |
Kolathiri Samorin | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2 ships 150 soldiers[1] |
21 cannons 40,000 Nāyars 20,000 men from the Zamorin.[2] |
The siege of Cannanore was a four-month siege, from 27 April 1507 to 27 August 1507, when troops of the local ruler (the Kōlattiri Raja of Cannanore), supported by the Zamorin of Calicut and Arabs, besieged the Portuguese garrison at St. Angelo Fort in Cannanore, in what is now the Indian state of Kerala. It followed the Battle of Cannanore, in which the fleet of the Zamorin was defeated by the Portuguese.[3]