Siege of Salvador (1638)
| Siege of Salvador | |||||||
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| Part of the Dutch invasions of Brazil | |||||||
Dutch burning sugar mills at Bahia | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Portugal Spain | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Giovanni di San Felice Luís Barbalho |
Jan Moritz van Nassau-Siegen Johan van der Mast | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1,000 |
4,600 (3,600 Dutch troops and 1,000 Brazilian auxiliaries) or 6,000 30 or 45 ships | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Light |
500 killed 30 captured Large amount of abandoned military equipment | ||||||
Location within Brazil Show map of BrazilSiege of Salvador (1638) (South America) Show map of South America | |||||||
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.
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