The War You Never Knew: How the Dutch-Portuguese Clash Reshaped the World
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Experience an epic trip through time as we explore the fascinating and profound story of the Dutch-Portuguese War. Countries like Spain, England, France, America, Brazil, and Southeast Asia were affected by this conflict between two powerful empires. Explore the intricate network of objectives, competitions, and rivalries that molded this fierce quest for global supremacy.
Join us as we explore the tactics, allies, and betrayals that played out on the broad stage of world power struggles as we navigate the perilous seas of this historic fight. Observe the audacity and vision of Dutch and Portuguese lands as they expanded borders and created new frontiers.
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Thanks for an interesting video.
In 1656/8, the Dutch captured the Maritime provinces of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the Portuguese. This region contained a large Catholic population. Afraid that these Catholics might help the Portuguese, the Dutch carried out a total prosecution of Catholics. Catholicism only recovered (that too partially) when an Indian priest Saint Joseph Vaz, secretivly came to Ceylon.
Portugal was never Spanish territory.
The king was the same, but the countries were not the same.
We had the Iberian Union, and that Union took Spanish wars to Portugal side.
It can be called the Iberian Union.
But if tomorrow King Philip VI of Spain becomes king of Portugal, after an invasion of the Spanish army and fleet, with him living in Madrid, and the rulers of Portugal are decided by a "council of Portugal" as the "Council of Aragon" or the "Council of Italy", similar to the current Spanish autonomous communities, where the Portuguese, Aragonese and Italians administered their territories, but were obedient to the king of Spain, your country is occupied. If all Portuguese international policy depends on Spain, and the Portuguese have to integrate their army and fleet into the Spanish fleet in their operations...
This would have been impossible in the nationalist era of the 19th century. But it was possible in the international context of world war of the 16th-17th centuries, between Catholics and Protestants, where Spain was the leader of the Catholics, and Philip II had rights (through his Portuguese mother) over the crown of Portugal. Portugal could not become a base of English or French interests. Portugal had to add its efforts to Spain and our empire in Italy and the Netherlands to save the Catholic religion and the Mediterranean culture in Europe and the world. If the Protestants had won the French wars of religion, which caused 2-3 million deaths (with the Spanish occupation of Paris in 1590) and the German Protestants had won in Germany (with the support they had from England and the Netherlands) they would have made another common front to invade Madrid and then Portugal, Vienna and Rome, eliminating our empires in the world. It is often said: Portugal lost colonies in Asia because it was against Spain, and could not defend them. I do not believe that a completely independent Portugal would have ceased to be Catholic, and therefore an enemy of the Protestants of the Netherlands. Even among the Protestants, England eliminated the Dutch from New York and South Africa. Portugal kept Brazil among other things, first because Spain sent several fleets that destroyed the Dutch fleet in the 16th century, and then because, after Portugal's independence, England was afraid that Spain would invade Portugal again. For Spain, an independent Portugal was better, because then the British could not invade Brazil. The British tried without success to invade Hispanic America, with more than 100 direct attacks (they could only get 1 of 400 parts, small islands). It would have been a problem for Spain to also defend Brazil against the emerging power of the British, who could then attack Peru or Argentina through the jungle. When that danger of Spanish invasion disappeared, because we were no longer great powers, the British kept the territory between Angola and Mozambique, which caused a very serious crisis in Portugal, in 1890, which later ended the monarchy, due to betrayal and the lack of British generosity with its former allies, which were no longer so necessary. The Portuguese Empire was defended many times bravely by the Portuguese, but they were a relatively small country against the British or French, and without these complicated alliances they would have lost Brazil. Spain was never interested in Brazil. But for the British who attacked Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, in 1741, or Argentina and Uruguay in 1806-07, or Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, Cuba, the Philippines (places they could not conquer) Brazil would have been a chocolate cake or the jewel of the british crown.
@@Gloriaimperial1 I always found the alliance of Portugal and England to be a bit one sided. To me the brits just used the portuguese as a destabilizer to balance the scale of power against it's rivals in mainland Europe, mainly Spain and France. Sure we needed all the help we could get but those 200 longbowmen they gave us in Aljubarrota were insulting and ridiculous considering we were facing a force of more than 30000 french, italian and spanish men. I guess the brits thought: "yeah let's just give them some crumbs so they can't say we didn't help them not to mention the rest of the drama during the course of history.
@@youyoutobio In the 14th century, Spain was still divided into three kingdoms: Castile, Aragon, and Navarre, which kept an eye on each other, sometimes with wars, and with tensions with the Byzantine Empire, France, England, and the Hanseatic League. In that context, Portugal was a strong kingdom that could win a war against Castile. The Spanish hegemony in Europe between 1500 and 1650, with dominions in the Netherlands until 1713 and half of Italy until 1759, was produced with the unity of those three kingdoms. Then we could fight against five European powers simultaneously and win many wars: France, England, Protestant Germany, the Netherlands, and the Turkish Empire, occupying some European capitals. Portugal's problem was only that it had a very small population, even though it had a rich empire, with many resources in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. That coincided with the Spanish expansion in America and shortly after in Asia-Oceania (Iberian expansion).
England's alliance with Portugal was good for Spain and Portugal. Portugal was able to penetrate the Amazon (Spanish America already has 4 million km2 of Amazon rainforest, 1/3 of the total) and that served as a buffer for British ambitions, which could not occupy lands of their Portuguese ally. Spain received more than 100 attacks by British fleets throughout Spanish America in 300 years. They were obsessed with the Spanish empire. But they were defeated in colossal battles such as the War of Jenskins' Ear 1739-48, where we captured 400 British ships, or the Battle of Cartagena de Indias 1741, with 50 British ships destroyed. The Spanish blockade of England in 1779-82, capturing 80 ships, the defeats of Drake in the Caribbean and the capture of British redcoats and generals in Argentina and Uruguay 1806-07, a year after Trafalgar, which was the last battle with a declaration of war. But if the British had entered through the jungle of Brazil, with its long coastline, they would have created a power there, destabilizing Spanish America through the jungle. So paradoxically it served both countries: Portugal retained its independence and penetrated the Amazon, preserving Brazil, and Spain saved its legacy in America. While the British, with the island to hide in, destroyed the French empire in Quebec and India, and the Dutch empire in New York and Africa.
@@Gloriaimperial1 Whatever how the outcome went, the brits were always terrified of a united europe. A shame that my country's ruling class at the time never understood that.
@@youyoutobio Well, we can now celebrate that Europe is united. It is the British, or a part of them, who have made Brexit happen. Europe is good for Portugal and Spain, and in general all the partners and friends of the Union.
The Dutch always have been very agressive to the Portuguese , but the Portuguese won the majority of the confrontations.
Wrong Portuguese were annihilated in Sri lanka and littoral SriLanka was occupied by dutch
@@gaminiabeysinghe6212 bull...shit, study history 😂😂😂😂
@@LMFV66 Julie hadden dik verloren pik kanker megol kleine rijk
@@gaminiabeysinghe6212 ignorant, not happened, study history, Portuguese left because they prefer the Indian possessions, much more profitable in trading.
The Portuguese already had grandkids in china,whilst the Dutch were still playing with toy ships,how dare you compare the navigation achievements of both country’s.
he he he
Os Holandeses apenas navegaram o que os portugueses já tinham navegado. corrige
The war you never knew - although it has lasted 65 years. It was the third longest one in History. The first was the One Hundred Years War and the second the Dutch-Spanish.
Interesting and well written. Sounds sorta AI to me.
rubbish twisting of history
Portugal won the war against the Dutch for Angola and won the most important wars of all times, the war for mighty Brazil! It was Brazil who made all Europe rich and that is why even nowadays all Europe is "killing" for Brazil. However, in Brazil we speak Portuguese! Before Brazil, Europe counted gold in gams, after Brazil gold was counted in tons!
kkkkkkk lol no way
Oh Yes!
@@binalcensored2104 Facts! Portugal won in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and amazingly in Macau (China). However in Ceylon and Indonesia they lost. But I agree that Portugal overall came out best because Brazil alone was richer then all the rest put together.
portugal won the most implrtant and biggest territories of its empire, the dutch only gained tiny islands xd
@TheMisterFrenger True, the real value of Brazil would be discovered a century later
Remember that Portuguese-dutch war never happen in Europe
Portugal wins . Fatality 😅
Mate I'm germanic Gothic offspring I will reclaim the land for the Dutch great honor to the brave sailors and warriors of our Germanic mother root branch who fought and ventured into the unknown for a chance of a brighter and better future in this world planet 🌍
Good luck with that M8 kinda cringe but do you
How is that going mate? Did you finally leave your basement.
Mainly of Akan descent and both the Portuguese and the Dutch occupied the Gold Coast but I side with the Dutch since that’s part of my background and some of my ancestors were great Dutch sailors
I don't know if you know, but in the 17th century Dutch sailors were pirates (thieves) who plundered Portuguese and Spanish ships
Because Portuguese ask dutch to colonize Taiwan