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Talk:Recapture of Recife

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Latest comment: 12 years ago by Sbalfour in topic Questionable article, questionable facts

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The editors who make these pages, and supposedly write these articles, don't appear to actually know anything about Brazilian history, or to have done their research. The battle for recapture of Recife didn't start in May, 1652 - that was the start of the first Dutch-Anglo war. That war was not fought in Brazil. The battle for Recife started on Dec. 27, 1653 with the appearance of 77 Portuguese Man-o-wars in and around the islands of Recife. (Gulp!) It ended, not in Feb. 1654, but on Jan. 27, 1654, with Dutch capitulation. The 1200 or so Dutch colonists were given 3 months to leave. The article makes it sound like the battle was fought primarily on land (it wasn't), and that Portuguese colonial militias ousted the Dutch (they didn't). The 5 years since the second battle of Guarapes had been a long war of attrition - the Dutch were well fortified and controlled the sea lanes. It was a standoff that neither side could end. The Portuguese Crown dispatched those ships to finally oust them.Sbalfour (talk) 01:49, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Reply