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Siege of Dansborg (1624)
Siege on Danish fort in India, 1624 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other sieges on Dansborg, see Siege of Dansborg (disambiguation).
The Siege of Dansborg (Danish; Belejringen af Dansborg) or the Siege of Fort Dansborg (Danish; Belejringen af Fort Dansborg), was a siege of the newly finished Danish fort of Dansborg in Trangebar in 1624. The siege was initiated by the nayak of Thanjavur, Raghunatha, because of the Danish rejection of the demands from the nayak. The Siege, laid by general Calicut, was abandoned after the arrival of Danish reinforcements from sea. The event is mostly described by Icelander, Jón Ólafsson, in his work The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India.
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Siege of Dansborg (1624) | |||||||||
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![]() Fort Dansborg in Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
![]() | Thanjavur Nayak kingdom | ||||||||
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Raghunatha Nayak Calicut | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
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30 men 3 ships 2 cannons |
40.000 men (Numbers likely exargerated) 1000 elephants 1000 camels 1000 horses | ||||||||
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Unknown | Unknown |
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