Siege of Bintan

Battle of Bintan
	Part of Malay-Portuguese conflicts
Date	1526
Location	Bintan
Result	Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Sultanate of Malacca; Sultanate of Pahang
Commanders and leaders
Dom Pedro Mascarenhas; Tuão Mafamede;	Mahmud Shah of Malacca; Mahmud Shah I of Pahang; Unrecorded allied ruler
Strength
1 galleon; 3 carracks; 2 caravels; 1 galley; 1 half-galley; 5 light-galleys; 2 armed batels; 600 Portuguese soldiers; 300 Malay auxiliaries ; Unrecorded number of sailors and combat slaves	30,000 men; 20 oarships; Sultan of Pahang:; 30 oarships; 2,000 men
Casualties and losses
Few	Unknown

The siege of Bintan of 1526 was a military operation in which Portuguese forces successfully sieged, assaulted and destroyed the city of Bintan (Bintão, in Portuguese), capital of the former Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah.

^ Correia, 1862, 86
^ Gaspar Correia, Lendas da Índia 1862 edition, tome III, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, p.86
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^ ^a ^b Correia, 1862, p.85

[1] Correia, 1862, 86

[2] Gaspar Correia, Lendas da Índia 1862 edition, tome III, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, p.86

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[correia-4] Correia, 1862, p.85

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