What the records say
- When
- 27 Dec 1601
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 6.00° S, 106.20° E
- Description
- 1601 naval battle of the Dutch-Portuguese War
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Bantam
1601 naval battle of the Dutch-Portuguese War
The naval Battle of Bantam took place on 27 December 1601 in Bantam Bay, Indonesia, when an exploration fleet of five Dutch ships under the command of Wolfert Harmensz and a Portuguese fleet under André Furtado de Mendonça, sent from Goa to restore Portuguese authority, met in the Indonesian archipelago. The battle resulted in Dutch victory and forced the Portuguese to retreat.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Battle of Bantam is fought within what is now Indonesia off of the coast of the island of Java”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “бой в заливе Бантам”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page