Siege of Salvador (1638)

Siege of Salvador
	Part of the Dutch invasions of Brazil
	; Dutch burning sugar mills at Bahia
Date	April – May 1638
Location	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil12°58′S 38°30′W / 12.967°S 38.500°W
Result	Portuguese-Spanish victory
Belligerents
Portugal; Spain	Dutch Republic West India Company;
Commanders and leaders
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
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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]

References

^ Queiroz, Padre Fernão de, Vida do Venerável Irmão Pedro de Basto, Oficina de Miguel Deslandes, Lisboa, 1689, p. 315
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Guedes, Max Justo, História Naval Brasileira, Ibrasa, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1986, p.488
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Dorato, Hernâni, Dicionário das Batalhas Brasileiras, Ministério da Marinha, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1990, p.228
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.

[1] Queiroz, Padre Fernão de, Vida do Venerável Irmão Pedro de Basto, Oficina de Miguel Deslandes, Lisboa, 1689, p. 315

[Guedes-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Guedes, Max Justo, História Naval Brasileira, Ibrasa, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1986, p.488

[Dorato-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Dorato, Hernâni, Dicionário das Batalhas Brasileiras, Ministério da Marinha, Rio de Janeiro, Segundo Volume, Tomo IA, 1990, p.228

[FOOTNOTEMarley2008193-4] Jump up to: ^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.

[FOOTNOTEMarley2008194-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b Marley 2008, p. 194.

[FOOTNOTEMarley2008193–194-7] Marley 2008, pp. 193–194.

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