What the records say
- When
- 25 Oct 1625
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 5.08° N, 1.35° W
- Description
- 1625 battle
- Naval
- yes
Battle of Elmina (1625)
1625 battle
The Battle of Elmina was a military engagement of the Dutch-Portuguese War, fought near the castle of São Jorge da Mina in the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1625. It was fought between 1,200 soldiers of the Dutch West India Company who landed and assaulted the Portuguese garrison of the castle. The garrison was reinforced by 200 African allies put in service of the governor Sottomayor by the local caciques.
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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 “A Dutch fleet attacks the Portuguese garrison at Elmina castle at modern-day Elmina, Ghana, but is defeated with heavy casualties”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Niederländisch-Portugiesischen Krieg versucht die Niederländische Westindien-Kompanie zum fünften Mal nach 1596, 1603”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “первая битва при Эльмине (см”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page