[1] Suspecting a ruse, Dom Pedro instead dispatched vessels to the region to warn of the presence of the armada, recall all Portuguese soldiers away from the city, and bring back supplies, while ordering the garrison to prepare for an attack.

[1] A few days later, 40 Malay lancharas fought against a heavily armed Portuguese square-rigged caravel commanded by Dom Garcia de Meneses, that was passing on its way to the Moluccas.

[1] On 12 August the Malays and Javanese attempted to scale the walls of Malacca in a mass attack, however the Portuguese, among whom there were a number of veterans from the Italian Wars, successfully repulsed the assault, through the use of gunfire, gunpowder grenades and the dropping of disassembled masts and long timber beams, killing 600–800.

[2] As supplies ran low and the Portuguese became desperate, Dom Pedro publicly ordered a number of captains to attack the coastal cities of Johor, Pahang and Perak.

[5] The Portuguese navy officer Saturnino Monteiro pointed out the fact that "the simple threat of action from our armada against the shores of their kingdoms was enough to force the Malay kings to lift the siege, which constitutes another flagrant example of the flexibility of sea-power.