Regional1551

Battle of Pegu

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Myanmar

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Pegu (1551), part of the Burmese Dynastic Wars. Burma, Portuguese mercenaries defeated Mon Rebels. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents3

Burma
Portuguese mercenaries
Mon Rebels

ON THE MAPToungoo Burma

Conflict graph

PART OFToungoo Dynasty Expansion

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Pegu (1551). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-pegu-1551 · Sources & methodology