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In 1606, the Portuguese, under the command of Dom Álvaro de Menezes, had been struggling to defend their holdings in the East from Dutch attacks. In an attempt to weaken the Portuguese position, the Dutch fleet, commanded by Matelief, had split their forces, concentrating on eliminating the remaining Portuguese vessels. [1]
A very large Portuguese fleet under Dom Martim Afonso de Castro, the Viceroy of Goa, arrived on the scene with twenty Portuguese ships on 14 August 1606. The two fleets fought from 17 August. Nassau was boarded by Santa Cruz and Nossa Senhora da Conceição. Matelief, onboard Orange, went to the rescue but collided with another Dutch ship ...
The Battle of Macau in 1622 was a conflict of the Dutch–Portuguese War fought in the Portuguese settlement of Macau, in southeastern China.The Portuguese, outnumbered and without adequate fortification, managed to repel the Dutch in a much-celebrated victory on 24 June after a three-day battle.
Portuguese Empire. Tamão; Ming China: Defeat. Portuguese abandon Tamão; Battle of Sincouwaan (1522) Location: China (modern Hong Kong) Portuguese Empire: Ming China: Defeat: Battle of al-Shihr (1523) Location: Arabian Peninsula (modern Yemen) Portuguese Empire: Kathiri Sultanate: Victory: Siege of Calicut (1526) Part of Calicut-Portuguese wars
Li Zicheng (22 September 1606 – 1645 [1]), born Li Hongji, also known by his nickname, the Dashing King, [2] was a Chinese peasant rebel leader who helped overthrow the Ming dynasty in April 1644 and ruled over northern China briefly as the Yongchang Emperor (Chinese: 永昌帝; pinyin: Yǒngchāng Dì) of the short-lived Shun dynasty before his death a year later.
In 1606, the Portuguese Viceroy of India Dom Martim Afonso de Castro organized a large naval expedition to fight the Dutch VOC in south-east Asia and along the way attack the Sultanate of Aceh. Having landed and tried to attack the capital of Aceh, the Portuguese encountered heavy resistance, and upon receiving news of a Dutch siege on Malacca ...
In May 1606, the Portuguese fleet left Goa with a ship of 15 or 16 full-rigged ships they were joined by two Carracks, followed by a Caravel, four Galleys, and 23 Fustas and Galliots. [3] The armada carried 3,000 soldiers.
Sánchez' and Salazar's project, however, found opposition in another Jesuitic current headed by Alessandro Valignano and Superior General Claudio Acquaviva, who saw the Empresa de China as an unjustified violation of the Christian rule of evangelizing peacefully. [10] Portuguese Jesuits also saw it as a danger to their kingdom's economic ...