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Siege of Salvador
Part of the Dutch invasions of Brazil
Drawing of the Carmo Gate of the fortified city of Salvador, Bahia (c. 1759)
Date April – May 1638 Location Salvador, Bahia, Brazil12°58′S 38°30′W / 12.967°S 38.500°W / -12.967; -38.500 Result Portuguese-Spanish victory
Belligerents
Portugal  Spain	Dutch Republic  West India Company
Commanders and leaders
Giovanni di San Felice Luís 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) 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.

See also

• History of Brazil
• Colonial Brazil
• Dutch Brazil

References

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

• History of Salvador, Bahia
• 1638 in South America
• Conflicts in 1638
• Sieges of the Dutch–Portuguese War
• Sieges of the Eighty Years' War
• Sieges involving the Dutch Republic
• Sieges involving Portugal
• Sieges involving Spain