Siege of Malacca (1606)

Portugal repels Dutch and Johor forces

Siege of Malacca (1606)

Part of the Dutch–Portuguese War and Malay–Portuguese conflicts

Battle for Malacca between the VOC fleet and the Portuguese, 1606.
| Date| 1606

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Location|

Portuguese Malacca

Result|  Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portugal|

* Dutch Republic
* Johor Sultanate

Commanders and leaders

* André Furtado de Mendonça
* Martim Afonso de Castro

* Cornelis Matelief de Jonge
* Alauddin Riayat Shah III

Strength

* 180 men
* 20 ships

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* 14,000 men
* 12 ships

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Casualties and losses
Unknown|  Unknown

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Portuguese battles
in the Indian Ocean

16th century

* Cannanore (1501)
* Calicut (1503)
* Pandarane (1504)
* Cochin (1504)
* Kilwa (1505)
* Mombasa (1505)
* Cannanore (1506)
* Anjadiva (1506)
* Barawa (1507)
* Socotra (1507)
* Muscat (1507)
* Hormuz (1507)
* Cannanore (1507)
* Chaul (1508)
* Dabul (1508)
* Diu (1509)
* Goa (1510)
* Malacca (1511)
* Aden (1513)
* Jeddah (1517)
* Goa (1517)
* Zeila (1517)
* Pago (1520)
* Aceh (1521)
* Bahrain (1521)
* Bintan (1521)
* Pedir (1522)
* Ash-Shihr (1523)
* Muar River (1523)
* Pasai (1523–24)
* Lingga (1525)
* Calicut (1526)
* Bintan (1526)
* Mombasa (1528)
* Aceh (1528)
* Bahrain (1529)
* Diu (1531)
* Reishahr (1534)
* Malacca (1534)
* Ugentana (1535)
* Ugentana (1536)
* Beadala (1538)
* Diu (1538)
* Suakin (1541)
* Jeddah (1541)
* El Tor (1541)
* Suez (1541)
* Benadir (1542)
* Diu (1546)
* Perlis River (1547)
* Aden (1548)
* Al-Shihr (1548)
* Qatif (1551)
* Malacca (1551)
* Muscat (1552)
* Strait of Hormuz (1553)
* Gulf of Oman (1554)
* Bahrain (1559)
* Jaffna (1560)
* Malacca (1568)
* Aceh (1569)
* Goa (1570–1571)
* Chaul (1571)
* Chale (1571)
* Malacca (1573)
* Malacca (1574)
* Malacca (1575)
* Muscat (1581)
* Daman (1581)
* Leitao Coast (1586)
* Johor (1586)
* Johor (1587)
* Jaffna (1591)
* Chaul (1594)
* Kottakkal (1599–1600)

17th century

* Bantam (1601)
* Bahrain (1602)
* Aceh (1606)
* Malacca (1606)
* Cape Rachado (1606)
* Swally (1612)
* Gulf of Mannar (1612–13)
* Cambarão (1614)
* Formoso River (1615)
* Jaffna (1619)
* Qeshm (1621–22)
* Hormuz (1622)
* Hormuz (1625)
* Persian Gulf (1625)
* Langat River (1628)
* Duyon River (1629)
* Jambi (1630)
* Hooghly (1632)
* Julfar (1633)
* Sohar (1633–1643)
* Goa (1638)
* Daman (1638–39)
* Mormugão (1639)
* Malacca (1641)
* Muscat (1650)
* Colombo (1654)
* Colombo (1654)
* Daman (1694)
* Mombasa (1696–98)

18th century

* Surat (1704)
* Calicut (1752)

Portuguese colonial campaigns

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Dutch–Portuguese War

Europe

* Cape St. Vincent
* The Downs

Brazil

* 1st Salvador
* 2nd Salvador
* 3rd Salvador
* 1st Recife
* Mata Redonda
* Abrolhos
* Porto Calvo
* 4th Salvador
* Itamaracá
* Paraíba
* Tabocas
* Casa Forte
* Tamanare
* 1st Guararapes
* 2nd Guararapes
* 2nd Recife

Africa

* 1st Mozambique
* 2nd Mozambique
* 1st Luanda
* 1st Elmina
* 2nd Elmina
* 2nd Luanda
* Kombi
* 3rd Luanda

Asia

* Bantam
* Amboina
* 1st Malacca
* Changi
* Cape Rachado
* Sumatra
* Macau
* Persian Gulf
* Hormuz
* Jambi
* Goa
* Mormugão
* Galle
* 2nd Malacca
* 1st Colombo
* 2nd Colombo
* Mannar
* Malabar

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Dutch colonial conflicts

17th century

* Bantam (1601)
* Amboina (1605)
* Malacca (1606)
* Cape Rachado (1606)
* Pulo Buton (1606)
* Mozambique (1607)
* Mozambique (1608)
* Banda Islands (1609–21)
* Johor (1613)
* Jayakarta (1618–19)
* Macau (1622)
* Pescadores (1622–24)
* Salvador (1624)
* Luanda (1624)
* Persian Gulf (1625)
* Salvador (1625)
* Elmina (1625)
* Cuba (1628)
* Batavia (1628–29)
* Recife (1630)
* Jambi (1630)
* Abrolhos (1631)
* Liaoluo Bay (1633)
* Taiwan (1635–36)
* Brazil (1636)
* Liuqiu Island (1636)
* Porto Calvo (1637)
* Elmina (1637)
* Vietnam (1637–43)
* Goa (1638)
* Salvador (1638)
* Mormugão (1639)
* Itamaracá (1640)
* Ceylon (1640)
* Malacca (1641)
* Luanda (1641)
* Taiwan (1641)
* Taiwan (1642)
* Chile (1643)
* Cambodia (1643–44)
* New Netherland (1643–45)
* India (1644-45)
* Tabocas (1645)
* Brazil (1645)
* Philippines (1646)
* Kombi (1647)
* Guararapes (1648)
* Guararapes (1649)
* Taiwan (1652)
* 2nd Recife (1652-1654)
* 2nd Colombo (1654)
* Banten (1656–59)
* Mannar (1658)
* Malabar (1658-1663)
* New Netherland (1659–63)
* Cape Colony (1659-1677)
* Formosa (1661–62)
* Ceylon (1670-1670)
* India (1673)
* Java (1674–80)

18th century

* Java (1704–07)
* Java (1719–23)
* India (1739–41)
* Java (1741–43)
* Penfui (1749)
* Java (1749–57)
* Ceylon (1764-1766)
* Persian gulf (1765)
* India (1781)
* Sumatra (1781)
* Ceylon (1782)
* Gold Coast (1782)
* Cape Colony (1795)

19th century

* Surinam (1804)
* Cape Colony (1806)
* Java (1806–07)
* Moluccas (1810)
* Java (1811)
* Algiers (1816)
* Ambon (1817)
* Palembang (1819)
* Palembang (1821)
* Sumatra (1821–37)
* Borneo (1823)
* Bone (1824–25)
* Java (1825–30)
* Aceh (1831)
* Ahanta (1837–39)
* Bali (1846)
* Bali (1848)
* Bali (1849)
* Palembang (1851–59)
* Montrado (1854–55)
* Nias (1855–64)
* Bali (1858)
* Bone (1858–59)
* Borneo (1859–63)
* Japan (1863–64)
* Pasoemah (1864–68)
* Gold Coast (1869–70)
* Aceh (1873–1904)
* Mandor (1884–85)
* Jambi (1885)
* Edi (1890)
* Lombok and Karangasem (1894)
* Pedir (1897–98)

20th century

* Kerinci (1903)
* Bone (1905–06)
* Bali (1906)
* Bali (1908)
* Venezuela (1908)
* Indonesia (1941–45)
* Indonesia (1946–49)

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Portuguese colonial campaigns

15th century

* Morocco (1415)
* Morocco (1419)
* Morocco (1437)
* Morocco (1458)
* Morocco (1463–64)
* Morocco (1468)
* Morocco (1471)
* Morocco (1471)
* Guinea (1478)
* Morocco (1487)
* Morocco (1489)
* Morocco (1490)

16th century

* India (1500–1513)
* Algeria (1501)
* India (1504)
* East Africa (1505)
* East Africa (1505)
* Indian Ocean (1505–17)
* India (1506)
* India (1506)
* Mozambique (1506)
* East Africa (1507)
* India (1507)
* Socotra (1507)
* Arabia (1507)
* Persian Gulf (1507–15)
* India (1508)
* India (1509)
* India (1510)
* Malaysia (1511)
* India (1512)
* Morocco (1513)
* Morocco (1514)
* Morocco (1514)
* Iran (1514-15)
* Morocco (1515)
* Morocco (1515)
* Nigeria (1515-16)
* Morocco (1516)
* East Africa (1517)
* Goa (1517)
* Malaysia (1520)
* Sri Lanka (1520–1658)
* Sumatra (1521)
* Bahrain (1521)
* Insulindia (1521)
* China (1521)
* Sumatra (1522)
* Arabia (1523)
* Malaysia (1523)
* Sumatra (1523–24)
* Insulindia (1525)
* Insulindia (1526)
* India (1526)
* Java (1527)
* Sumatra (1528)
* East Africa (1528)
* Persian Gulf (1529)
* Moluccas (1530–1607)
* India (1531)
* Morocco (1533)
* Persian Gulf (1534)
* Malaysia (1534)
* Tunis (1535)
* Malaysia (1535)
* Malaysia (1536)
* Moluccas (1536)
* Brazil (1534–1536)
* India (1538)
* India (1538)
* Indian Ocean (1538–60)
* Red Sea (1541)
* Red Sea (1541)
* Red Sea (1541)
* Red Sea (1541)
* Ethiopia (1541)
* Ethiopia (1542)
* East Africa (1542)
* Ethiopia (1542)
* Ethiopia (1542)
* Ethiopia (1542)
* Ethiopia (1542)
* Ethiopia (1543)
* Malaysia (1543)
* Insulindia (1545)
* India (1546)
* India (1547)
* Malaysia (1547)
* Arabia (1548)
* Arabia (1548)
* Jailolo (1550)
* Persian Gulf (1551)
* Malaysia (1551)
* Arabia (1552–54)
* Gulf of Oman (1554)
* Pakistan (1557)
* Sri Lanka (1557–58)
* Brazil (1558)
* India (1559)
* India (1559)
* Jaffna (1560)
* Japan (1561)
* Morocco (1562)
* Morocco (1564)
* Japan (1565)
* Brazil (1567)
* Malacca (1568)
* Mozambique & Zimbabwe (1569-73)
* Sumatra (1569)
* Gambia (1570)
* Goa (1570–1571)
* Chaul (1570–1571)
* Honavar (1571)
* Mangalore (1571)
* Chale (1571)
* India (1570–75)
* Malaysia (1573)
* Malaysia (1574)
* Malaysia (1575)
* Morocco (1578)
* Angola (1580)
* India (1581)
* Arabia (1581)
* Angola (1583)
* Indian Ocean (1586–89)
* Persian Gulf (1586)
* Malaysia (1586)
* Malaysia (1587)
* Sri Lanka (1587–88)
* Mombasa (1589)
* Jaffna (1591)
* Chaul (1594)
* India (1599–1600)

17th century

* Java (1601)
* Myanmar (1605)
* Sumatra (1606)
* Malaysia (1606)
* Malaysia (1606)
* Indonesia (1606)
* China (1609)
* India (1612)
* Brazil (1612–1615)
* Persian Gulf (1614)
* Malaysia (1615)
* Gambia (1618)
* Jaffna (1619)
* Coromandel Coast (1619)
* Persian Gulf (1621–22)
* Trincomalee (1622)
* Persian Gulf (1622)
* China (1622)
* Angola (1622)
* Angola (1623)
* Brazil (1624)
* Angola (1624)
* Persian Gulf (1625)
* Brazil (1625)
* Gold Coast (1625)
* Malaysia (1628)
* Malacca (1629)
* Cape of Good Hope (1630)
* Brazil (1630)
* Jambi (1630)
* Brazil (1631)
* East Africa (1632)
* Bengal (1632)
* Arabia (1633)
* Arabia (1633–43)
* Brazil (1636)
* Gold Coast (1637)
* India (1638)
* Brazil (1638)
* India (1638–39)
* India (1639)
* Brazil (1640)
* Morocco (1640)
* Malaysia (1640–41)
* Colombia (1641)
* Angola (1641–48)
* Brazil (1641)
* India (1644–45)
* Brazil (1645)
* Brazil (1645)
* Angola (1647)
* Brazil (1648)
* Brazil (1649)
* Arabia (1650)
* Brazil (1652–54)
* 1st Sri Lanka (1654)
* 2nd Sri Lanka (1654)
* Mannar (1658)
* Malabar (1658–63)
* Margão (1659)
* Angola (1665)
* Brazil (1666)
* Angola (1670)
* Angola (1670)
* Angola (1671)
* Angola (1681)
* Angola (1691-93)
* India (1693)
* East Africa (1696–98)

18th century

* India (1704)
* Brazil (1710)
* Brazil (1711)
* Angola (1723)
* India (1729–32)
* Banda Oriental (1735–37)
* India (1746)
* India (1746)
* India (1752)
* Brazil (1756)
* Brazil (1762–63)
* Banda Oriental and Rio Grande do Sul (1762–63)
* Morocco (1769)
* Angola (1774–1778)
* Banda Oriental (1776–77)

19th century

* French Guiana (1809)
* China (1809–10)
* Banda Oriental (1816–20)
* Brazil (1821–25)
* China (1846)
* Mozambique (1847–1910)
* China (1849)
* Guinea-Bissau (1886)
* Guinea-Bissau (1886)
* Guinea-Bissau (1886)
* Mozambique (1895)
* Mozambique (1895)

20th century

* Angola (1902–04)
* Angola (1907)
* East Timor (1911–12)
* Angola (1914–15)
* Mozambique (1914-18)
* Angola (1914–1917)
* Mozambique (1917–18)
* Mozambique (1917-18)
* Timor (1942–43)
* India (1954)
* India (1961)
* Africa (1961–74)
* Angola (1961–74)
* Guinea-Bissau (1963–74)
* Mozambique (1964–74)

The siege of Malacca of 1606[1] was a military engagement between a Dutch force commanded by Cornelis Matelief and the Portuguese commander André Furtado de Mendonça.

The small Portuguese garrison managed to hold out and stop any Dutch direct attacks on the city until additional reinforcements led by Martim Afonso de Castro arrived,[1] which caused the Dutch to retreat from the siege. After they retreated, they were again defeated by the Portuguese at the Battle of Cape Rachado.

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Lach, D. F.; Van Kley, E. J. (1998). Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 3: Southeast Asia. University of Chicago Press. p. 1113\. "...on April 29, 1606. André Furtado de Mendoça (1558-1610), the captain of Malacca, has only 180 soldiers and Japanese auxiliaries to defend the city against the 14,000 which encircle it on land and sea. Despite these overwhelming odds, Malacca holds out for just short of four months until relieved by an armada which arrives from India under the command of Viceroy Dom Martim Afonso de Castro."
2. ^ Stevens, W. (2009). History of Sea Power. Germany: Bod Third Party Titles. p. 113\. ISBN 9783861950998.

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