• The Recapture of Angola, or Reconquest of Angola, was a military campaign fought between the Portuguese and the Dutch occupiers of Angola. Its most important...
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    Portuguese force consisting of 52 ships and 12,500 men recaptured the city. The city would then play a critical role as a base of the Portuguese struggle...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    Republic of Angola. (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) For continuation after independence, see: List of presidents of Angola Colonial...
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    Dutch West India Company (category Defunct companies of the Netherlands)
    shipping were forbidden to the GWC. The Portuguese succeeded in the recapture of Angola. Many merchants from Amsterdam and Zeeland decided to work with marine...
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  • Portuguese colonial rule." George, Edward (2012). The Cuban intervention in Angola, 1965–1991: From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale. London: Routledge. p. 354...
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    setback of the Portuguese Recapture of Angola, which crippled the Dutch colony in Brazil as it couldn't survive without the slaves from Angola, opinion...
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    Angola was first settled by San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo. In...
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    The recapture of Bahia (Spanish: Jornada del Brasil; Portuguese: Jornada dos Vassalos) was a Spanish–Portuguese military expedition in 1625 to retake the...
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    the Fortress of Massangano. In 1648, the Portuguese recaptured Luanda, with the Dutch leaving Angola. Njinga continued to fight the Portuguese until a peace...
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