What the records say
- When
- 1 May 1625
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 12.97° S, 38.50° W
- Description
- A Portuguese-Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador, Bahia (Bahia) from the Dutch.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Recapture of Bahia.
Recapture of Bahia
1625 battle of the Eighty Years War
The recapture of Bahia was a Spanish–Portuguese military expedition in 1625 to retake the city of Bahia in Brazil from the forces of the Dutch West India Company (WIC).
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “захват Салвадор-да-Баия португальцами”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la costa norte brasileña, una expedición hispano-portuguesa recaptura la villa de Salvador de Bahía, tomada por los neerlandeses el año anterior”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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- Capture of Bahia: A Dutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city of Salvador, Bahia from the Portuguese Empire (at this time in the Iberian Union)8 May 1624 · Event
- Battle in the Bay of San Salvador1627 · Battle
- First Battle of SalvadorMay 1638 · Battle
- Second Battle of SalvadorApr 1638 · Battle
- Battle of Mata Redonda18 Jan 1636 · Battle