Insurrection of Pernambuco

The Insurrection of Pernambuco (Portuguese: Insurreição Pernambucana), also known as the War of the Divine Light (Portuguese: Guerra da Luz Divina), was a movement against Dutch rule in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The revolution occurred during the second Dutch invasion and the Luso-Dutch war and resulted in the expulsion of the Dutch from the northeastern region of Brazil, followed by the reclamation of the territory by the Portuguese kingdom.^[1]

On May 15, 1645, eighteen Luso-Brazilian rebel leaders gathered at the São João Sugar Mill and signed a pledge to fight against Dutch rule in the captaincy. The movement involved groups led by André Vidal de Negreiros, João Fernandes Vieira, Henrique Dias and Filipe Camarão, in the famous Battles of Guararapes, fought between 1648 and 1649 and crucial to the expulsion of the Dutch from Brazil in 1654.^[1]