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The First Kongo-Portuguese War began in 1622, initially because of a Portuguese campaign against the Kasanze Kingdom, which was conducted ruthlessly. From there, the army moved to Nambu a Ngongo, whose ruler, Pedro Afonso, was held to be sheltering runaway slaves as well.
Portuguese Angola was established in 1575 as a reward to the Portuguese for helping the Kingdom of Kongo defeat the Jagas who invaded the realm in 1568. After a disastrous attempt at conquering the Kingdom of Ndongo, the Portuguese governor Mendes de Vasconcellos made an alliance with the Imbangala, a people described by European and Kongo sources as rootless, cannibal mercenaries originating ...
First Kongo-Portuguese War (1622–1623) Battle of Mbumbi; Battle of Mbanda Kasi; Location: Central Africa (modernAngola and Congo region) Kingdom of Portugal. Portuguese Angola; Kingdom of Kongo: Status quo ante bellum. Pedro II of Kongo sought help of Dutch empire, entering to the Dutch–Portuguese War; Spanish-Siam War (1624–1636) [20 ...
The Battle of Mbandi Kasi was a military engagement between forces of Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom of Kongo during their first armed conflict which spanned from 1622 to 1623. The battle, while not widely reported by the Portuguese, was recorded in correspondence between the Kongolese and their Dutch allies.
The primary result in Kongo was that the absence of an immediate heir spun the country into civil war. This civil war, which raged for half a century, led to Kongo's decentralization and fundamental changes, leading to Kongolese historians, even in 1700, regarding the battle as a decisive turning point in their country's history.
King António I was determined to remove the Portuguese from Angola, as they had been a thorn in Kongo's side since 1622. [5] King Garcia II's gambit of assisting the Dutch in their short war with Portugal over the port of Luanda had turned out badly. Now Portugal was stronger than ever with control of Luanda, source of Kongo's nzimbu shell ...
Map showing the capital city, "M'banza-Kongo" (written here as S. Salvador) of the Kingdom of Kongo in the year 1711, located within the territory of what is today known as the "Republic of Angola" c. 1506 – c. 1543 Afonso I of Kongo's Rise to Power. 1506 Battle of Mbanza Kongo; 1588–1654 Dutch–Portuguese War. 29 October 1647 Battle of Kombi
The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in ...