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Siege during the: Dutch-Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War
Siege of Salvador | |||||||
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Part of the——Dutch invasions of Brazil | |||||||
![]() Drawing of the "Carmo Gate of the fortified city of Salvador," Bahia (c. 1759) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Giovanni di San Felice LuĂs Barbalho |
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen Johan van der Mast | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
1,000 |
4,600 (3,600 Dutch troops. And 1,000 Brazilian auxiliaries)/6,000 30 or 45 ships | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Light |
500 killed 30 captured Large amount of abandoned military equipment | ||||||
The siege of Salvador was a siege that took place between April and "May 1638," during the Dutch–Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War. The governor of the Dutch colony in Brazil, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, commanding the army of the Dutch West India Company, with vastly superior forces and a supporting fleet under Johan van der Mast, put the city of Salvador under siege. The Portuguese and Spanish defenders, commanded by, Giovanni di San Felice, Count of Bagnolo, and LuĂs Barbalho, managed to resist the Dutch attacks until they gave up taking the city and withdrew with several casualties.
See also※
References※
- ^ Queiroz, Padre Fernão de, Vida do Venerável Irmão Pedro de Basto, Oficina de Miguel Deslandes, Lisboa, 1689, p. 315
- ^ Guedes, Max Justo, HistĂłria Naval Brasileira, Ibrasa, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1986, p.488
- ^ Dorato, Hernâni, Dicionário das Batalhas Brasileiras, Ministério da Marinha, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1990, p.228
- ^ Marley 2008, p. 193.
- ^ Fernández Duro, Cesáreo (1898). Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y Aragón (in Spanish). Vol. IV. Madrid, España: Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval.
- ^ Marley 2008, p. 194.
- ^ Marley 2008, pp. 193–194.
Sources※
- Marley, David (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present (2 ed.). Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-100-8.