Siege of Aden

Siege of Aden
	; Assault on Aden in 1513, by Gaspar Correia
Date	26 March 1513
Location	Aden, Arabia12°46′47″N 45°2′57″E / 12.77972°N 45.04917°E
Result	Yemeni Tahirid victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire Portuguese India;	Yemeni Tahirids
Commanders and leaders
Afonso de Albuquerque	Amîr Morjan
Strength
20 ships; 1,700 Portuguese; 800 Malabar natives	Unknown
Casualties and losses
100 or 200 killed.	50 killed.; 39 pieces of ordnance captured

The siege of Aden occurred when the Portuguese Governor of India, Afonso de Albuquerque, launched an unsuccessful expedition to capture Aden on 26 March 1513.

^ Hunter, F. M. (1877). An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia. London: Trübner & Co. p. 162.
^ R.B.Serjeant, The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast: Ḥaḍramī Chronicles, with Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates Off Mocha in the Seventeenth Century, 1963, Clarendon Press, p. 47
^ R.B.Serjeant p. 47

[hunter-1] Hunter, F. M. (1877). An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia. London: Trübner & Co. p. 162.

[2] R.B.Serjeant, The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast: Ḥaḍramī Chronicles, with Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates Off Mocha in the Seventeenth Century, 1963, Clarendon Press, p. 47

[3] R.B.Serjeant p. 47

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