Siege of Salvador (1638)

Siege during the Dutch-Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War
12°58′S 38°30′W / 12.967°S 38.500°W / -12.967; -38.500Result Portuguese-Spanish victory[1][2]Belligerents  Portugal
 Spain

Dutch Republic Dutch Republic

Commanders and leaders Giovanni di San Felice
Luís Barbalho John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen[2]
Johan van der Mast[3]Strength 1,000[3] 4,600 (3,600 Dutch troops and 1,000 Brazilian auxiliaries)[4] or 6,000[5]
30[2] or 45[4] shipsCasualties and losses Light 500 killed[6]
30 captured[2]
Large amount of abandoned military equipment[6]
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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 Luís Barbalho, managed to resist the Dutch attacks until they gave up taking the city and withdrew with several casualties.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Queiroz, Padre Fernão de, Vida do Venerável Irmão Pedro de Basto, Oficina de Miguel Deslandes, Lisboa, 1689, p. 315
  2. ^ a b c d Guedes, Max Justo, História Naval Brasileira, Ibrasa, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1986, p.488
  3. ^ a b Dorato, Hernâni, Dicionário das Batalhas Brasileiras, Ministério da Marinha, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1990, p.228
  4. ^ a b Marley 2008, p. 193.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b Marley 2008, p. 194.
  7. ^ 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.