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Dutch Brazil ( Dutch: Nederlands-Brazilië ), also known as New Holland ( Dutch: Nieuw-Holland ), was a colony of the Dutch Republic in the northeastern portion of modern-day Brazil, controlled from 1630 to 1654 during Dutch colonization of the Americas. The main cities of the colony were the capital Mauritsstad (today part of Recife ...
The Dutch surrender in Brazil, better known as the Capitulação do Campo do Taborda, was signed on January 26, 1654, and established the terms and clauses that sought to resolve the existing conditions of the Dutch in Brazilian lands, especially those related to the abdication of land and possessions. It also addressed marriages between ...
Recapture of Recife (1652–1654) The Recapture of Recife (or Second Siege of Recife) was a military engagement between the Portuguese forces under Francisco Barreto de Meneses and the Dutch forces of Captain Walter Van Loo. [2] After the Dutch defeats at Guararapes, their surviving men, as well as other garrisons of New Holland, joined in the ...
In 1645, the Portuguese community at Pernambuco rebelled against their Dutch masters, and by 1654, the Dutch had been ousted from Brazil. In the intervening years, a Portuguese expedition had been sent from Brazil to recapture Luanda in Angola, expelling the Dutch by 1648. [citation needed] Reprint of a 1650 map of New Netherland
The Dutch forces, led by Colonel Brinck, left Recife on February 17, 1649, and fought the Portuguese at Guararapes Plain on February 19. Though the Dutch West India Company fielded a larger, better equipped force, they suffered morale problems as most of their army was made up of mercenaries from Europe (primarily Germany) who felt no real passion for the war in Brazil, as opposed to the ...
On 26 January 1654, the Dutch Republic surrendered and signed a capitulation returning control of all the northeastern Brazil colony to the Portuguese. After the end of the First Anglo-Dutch War in May 1654, the Dutch Republic demanded that Nieuw Holland (Dutch Brazil) be returned to Dutch control.
The I nsurrection of Pernambuco ( Portuguese: Insurreição Pernambucana ), also known as the War of the Divine Light (Portuguese: Guerra da Luz Divina ), was a movement against Dutch rule in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The revolution occurred during the second Dutch invasion and the Luso-Dutch war and resulted in the expulsion of the Dutch ...
Capture of Bahia. The capture of Salvador was a military engagement between Portugal (at that time, united with Spain in the Iberian Union) and the Dutch West India Company, that occurred in 1624, and ended in the capture of the Brazilian city of Salvador by the latter. This capture was part of the Groot Desseyn plan of the Dutch West India ...