What the records say
- When
- Apr 1638
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 12.97° S, 38.51° W
- Description
- 1638 battle
Siege of Salvador (1638)
Siege during the Dutch-Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War
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.
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