Siege of Cannanore (1507)

Siege of Cannanore (1507)
	Part of the First Luso-Malabarese War
	; St. Angelo Fort in Cannanore
Date	27 April – 27 August 1507; (4 months)
Location	Cannanore, India
Result	Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Kōlattunād; Calicut
Commanders and leaders
Lourenço de Brito	Kolathiri; Samorin
Strength
2 ships; 150 soldiers	21 cannons; 40,000 Nāyars; 20,000 men from the Zamorin.

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]

^ K. M. Mathew (1988). History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497–1600. Mittal Publications. p. 165. ISBN 81-7099-046-7.
^ Malabar manual William Logan p.315
^ Malabar manual by William Logan p.314

[1] K. M. Mathew (1988). History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497–1600. Mittal Publications. p. 165. ISBN 81-7099-046-7.

[2] Malabar manual William Logan p.315

[3] Malabar manual by William Logan p.314

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