Battle of Muar river

In 1521, having defeated a Portuguese attempt to capture and destroy the Malaccan Sultan Mahmud Shah's base, attacks on Portuguese shipping increased from that time onwards,[1] more burden fell on the Portuguese, in April 1523, the Malaccans, allied with Pahang Sultanate[2] launched a raid against the Portuguese occupied Malacca with a large navy of 80 vessels led by Laksamana,[3], the Malayans have established themselves in Muar River,[4] A lone Portuguese vessel already sailing from Malacca spotted the large Malayan navy about 10 leagues off and quickly returned to Malacca to inform its captain Jorge de Albuquerque, he then decided to face them off in the sea and send ships there, however, the Portuguese encountered a heavy storm which forced them to go to Muar river since the storm was powerful enough it forced 3 Portuguese ships, separated from the rest, to go far into the river where they met the Malayan camp whereupon they were surrounded and all were killed on board resulting in the death of 65 Portuguese,[5][6] The rest of the Portuguese navy withdrew back to Malacca, and the Malayans, having already satisfied with their victory returned back to Bintan.[7]

• Attack on Bintan (1521)
• Battle of Pago
• Siege of Bintan