Siege of Mozambique (1608)

Siege of Mozambique (1608)
	Part of Dutch-Portuguese War
	; 1598 Dutch map of Mozambique Island.
Date	July - 18 August 1608.
Location	Island of Mozambique, Mozambique
Result	Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Dutch East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Dom Estevão de Ataíde	Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff
Strength
1 carrack, 2 galleons; 150 men.	9 fluyts, 4 yachts, 1840 or 2000 soldiers.
Casualties and losses
3 ships.	30 dead, 80 wounded.

The siege of Mozambique of 1608 was a second, unsuccessful, attack by the Dutch East India Company on the Portuguese fortress of Mozambique, on the island of Mozambique, in 1608.

^ George McCall Theal (2010).History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, from the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795 p. 420.
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^ Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, volume 2, 1894, pp. 139-140.
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[theal420-1] George McCall Theal (2010).History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, from the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795 p. 420.

[monteiro-2] Cite error: The named reference monteiro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[danvers-3] Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, volume 2, 1894, pp. 139-140.

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