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Portuguese sack of Mombasa (1505)

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Mombasa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Francisco de Almeida's fleet stormed and burned Mombasa on the first Portuguese reconnaissance of the Swahili coast.

Belligerents2

Portuguese Empire
Sultanate of Mombasa

ON THE MAPKingdom of Portugal

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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