Action of 12–17 January 1640
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title:
Action of 12–17 January 1640
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The action of 12–17 January 1640 was a naval battle between a Dutch fleet and a combined Spanish-Portuguese fleet during the Eighty Years' War. The battle took place on the Brazilian coast off Pernambuco and was an attempt by a fleet consisting of approximately eighty vessels transporting about 5,000 soldiers under the command of Portuguese Admiral Fernando de Mascarenhas to land reinforcements to bolster the Portuguese militia besieging the city of Recife. On 12 January this fleet was intercept
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1640 naval battle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_12%E2%80%9317_January_1640
date created:
2010-09-19T16:50:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:09:53Z
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