Battle of Chaul

Battle of Chaul (1508)
	Part of Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts and Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts
	; Portuguese ships, 16th century
Date	March 1508
Location	Chaul, India
Result	Mamluk victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Mamluk Sultanate; Gujarat Sultanate; Calicut
Commanders and leaders
Lourenço de Almeida †	Amir Husain Al-Kurdi; Malik Ayyaz; Mayimama Marakkar †
Strength
3 ships and 5 caravels	6 Egyptian carracks and 6 great galleys, 1500 combatants; 40 Gujarat Sultanate galleys
Casualties and losses
6 ships; 140 men	600-700

The Battle of Chaul was a naval battle between the Portuguese and an Egyptian Mamluk fleet in 1508 in the harbour of Chaul in India. The battle ended in a Mamluk victory. It followed the Siege of Cannanore in which a Portuguese garrison successfully resisted an attack by Southern Indian rulers. This was the first Portuguese defeat at sea in the Indian Ocean.^[2]

^ Rise of Portuguese Power in India, 1497-1550 R.S. Whiteway p. 93
^ ^a ^b ^c Cite error: The named reference Padfield was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415–1580 by Bailey Wallys Diffie p.232 [1]
^ "Conquerors; How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first Global Empire" by Roger Crowley p.219

[Whiteway-1] Rise of Portuguese Power in India, 1497-1550 R.S. Whiteway p. 93

[Padfield-2] Cite error: The named reference Padfield was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415–1580 by Bailey Wallys Diffie p.232 [1]

[4] "Conquerors; How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first Global Empire" by Roger Crowley p.219

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