Battle off Jask
| Battle off Jask | |||||||
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| Part of the Anglo-Portuguese rivalry in the Persian Gulf | |||||||
 Plan of the road of Jask | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Portuguese Estado da Índia |
 English East India Company | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Rui Freire de Andrada |
Andrew Shilling (DOW)[3] John Weddell | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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4 galleons and additional galliots[4] 1,000 men[4] | 4 ships | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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160 dead[5] 430 casualties[1] | 8 dead[5] | ||||||
The Battle off Jask[6][7] was a series of naval engagements in December 1620 and January 1621 between the Portuguese fleet under Rui Freire de Andrada and the English East India Company ships under Andrew Shilling and John Weddell.[8] It was the first military confrontation between two European powers in the Persian Gulf.[9]
Later, during the Siege of Qishm, Freire ordered his naval squadron to attack Jask. The Portuguese and Hormuzi forces successfully plundered the town and the English factory, but the attack only intensified English hostility towards the Portuguese in the Gulf.[10]
Order of battle
[edit]Portuguese ships:[4]
- São Pedro (64)
- São Martinho (48)
- São Lourenço (24)
- Nossa Senhora da Conceição (22)
- Hart
- Eagle
- London
- Roebuck
References
[edit]- 1 2 Boxer 1935, p. 70.
- ↑ Percy Molesworth Sykes, A History of Persia, Read Books, 2006, ISBN 1-4067-2692-3, p. 277.
- 1 2 Frederick Charles Danvers, (1894) The Portuguese in India: A.D. 1481–1571, p. 210.
- 1 2 3 4 Boxer 1935, p. 67.
- 1 2 Matthee, Rudolph; Flores, Jorge (2011). Rudolph Matthee; Jorge Flores (eds.). "Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia". Acta Iranica (52). Peeters: 107. ISBN 9789042924482.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ Nielsen, The Fall of Ormuz, p. 58.
- ↑ Steensgaard, Niels (March 15, 2017). The Asian Trade Revolution. University of Chicago Press. p. 349. ISBN 9780226771458.
- ↑ Boxer 1935, pp. 67–70.
- ↑ Salman 2004, p. 228.
- ↑ Salman 2004, p. 231.
Bibliography
[edit]- Boxer, Charles Ralph (1935). "Anglo-Portuguese Rivalry in the Persian Gulf 1615–1635". In Edgar Prestage (ed.). Chapters in Anglo-Portuguese Relations. Watford, Hertfordshire: Voss and Michael. pp. 46–129.
Salman, Mohammed Hameed (Dec 1, 2004). Aspects of Portuguese rule in the Arabian Gulf, 1521-1622 (Thesis). University of Hull.
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