Somali–Portuguese conflicts refers to the armed engagements between Portuguese forces and Somali forces,[2][3] namely those of the Adal Sultanate and the cities of Barawa and Mogadishu in the 16th century.[4][5][6]
Portugal made a notable intervention in the Ethiopian–Adal War on the side of Christian Ethiopia and although Cristóvão da Gama, the commander of the Portuguese expeditionary corps was captured and executed for not converting to Islam, the remaining Portuguese continued the campaign, and Ethiopia was ultimately defended successfully.[7][8][9]
Background
The first known Portuguese to come into contact with the Horn of Africa was king John IIs explorer and spy Pero da Covilhã.[10] Covilhã landed at Zeila in 1487
and made his way to Ethiopia, where he was forced to marry and settle for the rest of his life.[11] It's not clear, however, whether he ever managed to transmit any knowledge back to Portugal.[11][10]
At the time, the Muslim Sultanate of Adal and the cities of Barawa (Brava in Portuguese) and Mogadishu (Mogadoxo in Portuguese) were among the states in east-Africa that were involved in the Indian Ocean trade network and their political, commercial and religious alignment with Mamluk Egypt and then the Ottoman Empire meant that they were hostile to the presence of the Portuguese in the region.[13]
Somalis, similar to Harari people, were historically known to Europeans as "Moors" partly due to their millennia-old ties with the Arab world.[14] According to the explorer Francisco de Almeida, as well as Duarte Barbosa, "Moors" dominated the Indian Ocean trade for centuries prior to the arrival of the Portuguese.[15][16][17]
Upon sailing past Mogadishu on his way back to Portugal from the Malabar Coast, Vasco da Gama unfounded, bombarded the ships anchored in the harbour, damaging a few. He then continued his journey back to Portugal at a safe distance.[20][21]
At the request of the king of Malindi, who was an ally of the Portuguese, Tristão da Cunha and Afonso de Albuquerque attacked the rival city of Barawa in 1505, with a force of 1500 men and 16 ships.[22] Barawa had 4000 warriors and its authorities were offered the chance to submit peacefully, but they refused.[22] It was therefore assaulted and sacked.[22][23]
Zeila raid, 1513
Shortly before the 1513 siege of Aden, the Portuguese governor of India Afonso de Albuquerque detached a two ship squadron to scout Zeila.[24] Its captains Ruy Galvão and João Gomes were unable to land due to the opposition of the inhabitants, hence they burned twenty large ships they found in the harbour.[25]
After the Portuguese governor of India Lopo Soares de Albergaria had conducted a campaign on the Red Sea in 1517, he razed the city of Zeila, whose garrison was away at the time and whose commander had recently been killed in combat while on campaign elsewhere, in Ethiopia.[26][27]
Berbera raid, 1518
In 1518, the Portuguese led by António de Saldanha directed a six battleship naval attack towards Berbera. The inhabitants were however alert and upon receiving news of the presence of a Portuguese fleet in the region, evacuated the city with all their belongings. The city was then razed by the Portuguese.[28][29]
In 1541, troops of the Adal Sultanate attacked and killed all but two of a party of 100 Portuguese commanded by António Correia, who had mutinied and gone ashore at Massawa.[30][31][32][33]
After the Portuguese conducted a large-scale naval expedition to Suez in 1541, the Ottoman Empire dedicated greater resources into protecting the Red Sea from Portuguese intrusion. To such effect, about 25 galleys were armed and stationed at Aden.[34]
Having received reports from allied Swahili city-states that the hostile city of Mogadishu had appealed for Ottoman military support in preparation for a revolt against Portugal, the Portuguese captain of fort São Caetano at Sofala João de Sepúlveda departed with 100 soldiers, six oarships and a contingent of allied warriors and ships from Malindi, and upon arriving at Mogadishu "destroyed the city and did them great damage and injury".[35] Barawa was also sacked in retaliation for its inhabitants having delivered a few Portuguese prisoners to the Turks.[36] After signing new peace treaties with the rulers of both cities, Sepúlveda returned to Malindi.[36]
The Ethiopian Empire had appealed for Portuguese military aid against the invading Adal Sultanate, and the Portuguese governor of India Dom Estevão da Gama dispatched his brother Cristóvão da Gama to Ethiopia as the head of an expeditionary corps of 400 soldiers to the aid of Emperor Gelawdewos.[37][38][39]
The Adal general Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi confronted Gama and the Portuguese at the Battle of Jarte, when he attempted to assault a Portuguese fortified camp.[40] The Portuguese however, seized the initiative and marched out to attack the Adalites vigorously, routed their Turkish mercenaries and wounded Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi himself, causing the Adalite army to flee.[40] The Portuguese suffered 11 dead and 50 wounded, against over 370 of the enemy.[40]
After invading part of Ethiopia, the Sultanate of Adal had occupied the Ethiopian mountain-top fortress of Bacente or Amba Senayt. It was garrisoned with 1500 archers and buckler-men. In February 1542, the Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama stormed the fortress, suffering 8 dead in the process, but capturing the place, while the entire Adalite garrison was slaughtered by the Portuguese or the native Ethiopians.[41] The expeditionary force spent the rest of February there, recovering from the battle.[42]
At the Battle of the Hill of the Jews, a Portuguese detachment personally commanded by Dom Cristóvão da Gama captured a hill controlled by an Adalite contingent of warriors, where valuable horses grazed. Dom Cristóvão then left a number of men behind to secure the animals and returned to camp, before fighting in the Battle of Wofla.[43]
Following their defeat at Jarte, Gragn requested aid from the governor of Ottoman Yemen, who provided him with a retinue of Turkish, Arab, and Albanian troops that would assist him in the Battle of Wofla.[44]
On August 28, 1542 a large Adal army, which included a contingent of 2000 Arabian arquebusiers and 900 Turkish arquebusiers attacked the Portuguese at Wofla, successfully forcing them to flee their fortified camp erected upon a hill, killing 200. Dom Cristóvão was captured that night along with 14 comrades by followers of Imam Ahmad, who later personally executed him.[45]
The Portuguese survivors of the Battle of Wofla managed to evade capture and then link up with the army of Emperor Gelawdewos, and requested that they avenge the death of Dom Cristóvão.[46] The Portuguese would accept no other commander in replacement of Dom Cristóvão other than the Emperor himself. Large number of warriors flocked to the banner of the Emperor, and they marched out against Imam Ahmad, who had pitched camp near Lake Tana.[46] On 13 February 1543, they defeated in Wogera an Adal detachment led by the Imam's lieutenant Sayid Mehmed, who was killed in the action. Prisonores then revealed the location of al-Ghazis camp.[47]
At the Battle of Wayna Daga on 21 February 1543, the Ethiopians engaged the Adalites with the Portuguese in the vanguard. The Portuguese charged the Muslim army, followed by the Ethiopians. The Imam, seeing his men lose ground, moved up to encourage them, but upon approaching the Portuguese he was fatally shot. Tradition states that Imam Ahmad was shot in the chest by a Portuguese musketeer named João de Castilho, who had charged alone into the Muslim lines and died. The wounded Imam was then beheaded by an Ethiopian cavalry commander, Azmach Calite.[48]
Soon after this, some of the Muslims attempted to flee, while others tried to stop them, resulting in their hindrance of one another. Witnessing their disorder and confusion, the Portuguese attacked, killing many. Simultaneously, the army of Gelawdewos attacked the Muslim rear, leading to a devastating rout, the fleeing Muslims pursued by the Ethiopians and Portuguese who cut them down as they ran back to their camp. The Portuguese suffered 4 dead in this battle, while reportedly half of the Muslim army either surrendered or was killed.[49][50]
Later conflicts
Berbera raid, 1550
In February 1550, the Portuguese governor of India Jorge Cabral dispatched Gonçalo Vaz de Távora to the Red Sea with four oarships to gather information regarding the Ottomans and the Portuguese in Ethiopia.[51] Távora reached Massawa and on his way back attacked Berbera, whose inhabitants hurriedly evacuated the city as soon as they sighted the Portuguese ships.[51] The houses were then sacked and torched.[51]
Through a number of prisoners captured at Berbera the Portuguese learnt that the Ottomans were preparing a campaign, but the objective of which was unknown.[51] A number of tradeships were then captured along the coast.[51] Távora reached Goa on May 17, 1550.[51]
In 1585, the Turkish privateer Mir Ali Beg sailed to Southeastern Africa and convinced the cities on the Swahili coast to declare their allegiance to the Ottoman Empire and revolt against Portuguese suzerainty in the region. Mogadishu and Barawa joined the revolt and supplied Mir Ali Beg with men and ships. He later erected a stronghold in Mombasa and extracted tribute from the cities nearby, but two punitive Portuguese campaigns dispatched by Tomé de Souza in 1588 and 1589 reestablished Portuguese authority along the coast for the next century to come.[52][53][54]
Aftermath
The OmaniYa'rubids challenged Portuguese supremacy on the east African coast in the 17th century, and after decades of conflict in 1698 captured Fort Jesus at the Siege of Mombasa, marking the end of Portuguese political and commercial influence north of this region.[55][56]
The siege would have a significant impact on the power dynamics in the Swahili coast. Soon after, the Omanis took over Kilwa, Pemba Island and Zanzibar. The Portuguese sphere was reduced to Mozambique from where several attempts were made to restore hegemony in East Africa, but to no avail.[57][58]
^ abDavid B. Quinn, Cecil H. Clough, P. E. H. Hair, Paul Edward Hedley Hair: [The European Outthrust and Encounter: The First Phase C.1400-c.1700 : Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on His 85th Birthday], Liverpool University Press, 1994, p. 84.
^Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India A.D. 1481-1571, W.H. Allen & Company, limited, 1894, p. 276.
^Fernão Lopes de Castanheda: História do Descobrimento e Conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses, 1833 edition, Typographia Rollandiana, book IV, chapter XIX pp. 39-41.
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Portugal's Influence on Culture and Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia 1493-1634, p. 180 [1]
^Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, Envoys of a Human God, The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632, p. 34 [2]
^Saturnino Monteiro (2011) Portuguese Sea Battles - Volume III - From Brazil to Japan 1539-1579 pg.63.
^"Letter from João de Sepúlveda to the King, Mozambique, 1542 August 10", in Documents on the Portuguese in Mozambique and Central Africa 1497-1840 Vol. III (1540-1560). National Archives of Rhodesia, Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos. Lisbon, 1971 p.133.
^ abcThe Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543, as Narrated by Castanhoso With Some Contemporary Letters, the Short Account of Bermudez, and Certain Extracts from Correa, pp. 41-48.(2017)
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