The Battle of Macau | Portugal’s INCREDIBLE Defence Against the Dutch Republic
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Welcome to this video on the little known Battle of Macau between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Dutch Republic. This was the worst defeat experienced by the Dutch in the East Indies, which solidified Portugal's role as one of the main trading partners in the region.
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"If God speaks Portuguese, I do not know. But these cannons do!" - Dom Francisco de Almeida.
That was one of many battles and invasion attempts by Dutch in Macau.
In fact. We the Macanese (half Portuguese and half Chinese plus the Portuguese community (not the Chinese one unfortunately) had just celebrated the 400th victory anniversary in Macau (it was supposed to be held in 2022 and due to Covid It was postponed to June 24th 2023.
Thank you for this video❤
I would love to know Macau one day, and the remaining culture that had Portuguese influence. Regards from a Brazilian.
Portugal was the underdog, only after the the Great Lisbon Earthquake, when Lisbon was one of the Richiest cities in Europe. At the Time, far bigger than Madrid. But after the Disaster, all fell apart.
In the 1400's,1500's1600's, Portugal and Spain were the Alpha Dogs of all European Nations. You dont have the first global Empire, being an underdog.
Dont forget that the Brittish only had a colonie in China, 300 years after the Portuguese first got there. 300 hundred years. Its a long Time.
The Portuguese were the first European Power to have colonies in Índia ( the Brittish only after 250 years) , and the Last ones to leave.
And the first Europeans to get to Japan, and Founded the citie Port of Nagasaki.
Not bad at all for a small countrie.
Very brave man, and a very Brave Nation, indeed.
Not to mention the second largest country in europe in 1973
"Portugal was the underdog, only after the the Great Lisbon Earthquake, when Lisbon was one of the Richiest cities in Europe. At the Time, far bigger than Madrid. But after the Disaster, all fell apart. " Not it did not the city rose among ruins with great work of Marques de Pombal becoming one first grand planed cities in enlighted format.
@@imperialguardsman9867 yes it did.
Ok,Lisboa was bigger than Madrid until the Mid's 19th century ( abaut 160 years ago) but the City and the Country never were able to Recover from the 1755 Catastrophe,even with the Marquês de Pombal new innovative city planning.
All the resources left ( the Gold that was coming from Brazil) weren't enough to rebuild the City and the rest of the country in a proper way.
And to make the things even Worse than ever, 50 years after the Earthquake the Napolean troops did invade Portugal,and on their Path they Left only Pain and Misery, destroying and looting an valuable thing,leaving Portugal on the verge of economic collapse. And not to mention the implications for the country by the Royal Family did escape to Brazil.
And the rest is History.
No it was not.... it had t strongest navy...it was the opposite of the under dog actually...they were the beat
@@reallyneed2know cap we never had the strongest navy. Second during the early 15 hundreds but never 1st
The last recorded Portugal x The Netherlands battle was 2006 the Battle of Nuremberg
Which the Portuguese won once again.
Jesus Cristo disse que dava a outra face, o Figo não é Jesus Cristo
Portugal vs Dutch was the first Global War in history, fought in Asia, Africa, Europe and Americas and Portugal won it! The Dutch started defeating Portugal in Asia, when Portugal was ruled by Spain, by dynastic reazons from 1580 to 1640, but the war followed in Angola, where Portugal defeated the Dutch and the most important wars of all, it was the war for mighty Brazil, where Portugal total defeated the Dutch! It is strange why for so many time the Dutch vs Portugal was told just with the battles in Asia, where the Dutch won...
Hm depends on the perspective. The earlier Ottoman Portuguese conflict was also pretty global, from Northern Africa, East Africa, Malta, Middle-East, the Indian continent & Ocean...
For being global it has to reach the Globe and not just many lands. Which means the America Continent! Otomans never were at the Americas. The Dutch VS Portugal was fought in Asia, Africa, Europe and Americas, including also the battles in Australia area, like Timor!
Why many consider it as Dutch victory? Because the Portuguese lost their golden geese in the Oriental World market that they had monopolized for decades towards the European market, the main reason of their overall exploration and colonization, they had lost their important points of freitoria, harbor, and colony settlement in India, Ceylon, Indonesia, East Africa, and Persian Gulf to not just the Dutch, but later on to British, France, native feudal warlord, and Muscat sultanate.
@@williemherbert1456 On those times, the price of spices decreased a lot and Portugal turned to Brazil and to sugar and later to gold, so the Portuguese king had more gold than all other europeans kings together. When in the rest of Europe people counted gold in grams, Portugal counted it in tons! But that is the part of history, that Jews and protestants dont like to talk about it,,,
@@MrJovision Yes the spice price would fall eventually, in the late 18th century, and that's when VOC actually being dissolved, but not at the 16th century when proven still to be godly profitable, and it's not just mere spices, but also textile, gems, dyes, cotton, coffee, tea, porcelain, and then the large number of potential customer beside the European consumer market. Brazil could be said just mere cash crop colony, and even that still not as profitable as Cuba and Haiti since the geography in Brazil made goods & raw material distribution and transportation to be really hard, the margin of contour line between the coastal area and then arable interior used as plantation is really huge, and that's why Brazil always in expectation to be world great power, but never make it to the eventuality. And then the gold rush in Minas Geraes, still not as influential as the silver deposit in Rio de La Plata, to be used by Portugal in determining the exchange power that much, although still decent enough. And again, the first reason the Portuguese trying to set sail and explore to the deep sea is in search of the Spice Island and Oriental market as their venture primary goal, because Ottoman sealed off European traders from the Eastern goods with embargo. That said, you're right that at the end keeping the ownership of Brazil by Portugal is still worth it since the eventual rise of cocoa and sugar price in the market, alongside the woods there too later on.
It's truly impressive that 400 years ago small nations like Portugal and Holland were fighting and projecting power with their navies on the other side of the world, but particularly Portugal since it was the first nation doing it, and actually had to fight the Ottoman empire before that. These days, with all the technology and knowledge available, we still see ridiculous situations like container ships being stuck in the Suez, and all the problems that bring
Back then the ships were made of wood but the men were made of steel.
The greatest navy of all time, the Portuguese.
And this is why the Dutch never became a true world power due to the fact the Portugueses kicked them from its major african and south america colonies, Portuguese along with the local tribes gave hell to the Dutch and that's the why the Portuguese it's 6th most spoken language in the world not the Dutch. Anyway that's history and great video.
The Dutch on their hight were more powerfull than the Portuguese ever were. Also, Brazil only became the most important Portuguese colony because they lost their Asian trade networks. The Dutch became richer than they already were and Portugal was left in the dust
@@Raadpensionaris right that's why you were destroyed in Brasil, Angola and Macau. And that's why Dutch it's only spoken in the Netherlands! Hey better try and loose then doing nothing! Peace!
@@zepedro6666 Those are no arguments lol. Cope, the Dutch possessed the strongest fleet in the world during the 17th century and it had a far stronger army than Portugal. It was the second largest army in Europe during 1675-1713 and it even had to help Portugal during the war of Spanish Succession. The Portuguese fought well against the Dutch but their most valuable trade networks were lost. Its funny how the Portuguese try to spin this obvious loss as a win. Almost if they try to compensate for becoming almost irrelevant after that
@@Raadpensionaris You now what keep dreaming. Just Brasil was much more valuable them islands in the Indian Ocean. Accepted it's better for you... ☮️
@@zepedro6666 Lmao, tell that to the Dutch East India Company. Gold wasn't even discoverd yet in Brazil so it was of secundairy importance compared to Asia. Plus the Portuguese lost it in the 1820s. So if it isn't clear yet. The Dutch came better out of this war
🇵🇹By far the greatest navigators warriors and sailors in human history,none can even get closer! Portugal gave worlds to the world🇵🇹💚
1554? I didn’t realise Macau was so old! Much older than Hong Kong, leased to the UK in 1898.
The Dutch also had problems in Brazil back when it was a colony of Portugal.
Hi Anon! Yes, indeed. They tried to take advantage of Portuguese overextension to take the colony in Brazil, but Portuguese and Spanish soldiers were a lot better climatised to fighting in South America. So it was fairly simple to retake. Thanks for watching!
@@BeforeUsHistory But there never were spanish troops in that theater, were there? I mean, in both battles of Guararapes local blacks, indians and settlers fought alongside each other. I never heard of any spanish. And it was not easy at all
@@patricksoares6253 Plus no Dutch soliders. It were mostly German and French mercenaries. The Dutch couldn't take it back because of the 1st Anglo-Dutch war and because the regents in Holland didn't want a large settlement colony. The loss was only really felt in the province of Zealand
@@Raadpensionaris Well, against that I can't argue. Still, the germans and the french are formidable enemies aswell!
@@BeforeUsHistory Hi, Portugal actually gave up retaking Pernambuco when it was invaded by the Dutch because the Dutch were just too strong. The local Portuguese land owners took matters in their own hands and fought against the Dutch. When they won Portugal had to pay damages to the Dutch. The expulsion of the Dutch from Pernambuco took 24 years and had important consequences, like the first wave of Jewish migration to NY. Worth telling story.
The irony of course is had the Dutch succeeded in conquering Macao, the Chinese would almost certainly have expelled them soon after.
Exactly! The Portuguese are natural born diplomats… notice we were forced to handover macau. We shouldn’t have complied
Very interesting video, well done! However, if I may just add one thing; it is important to note that at the beginning of the 16th century Portugal was everything but an underdog, and was considered a major power, both in terms of its navy and artillery, which was considered the best in the world from 1480 - 1550, Portugal's peak (having a much more powerful navy than England, the Netherlands and France at that point.) You don't build a global empire by being an "underdog". It was only in the 17th century that its naval power started to decrease and be overtaken as a result of the Iberian Union, which led its empire in Asia to become neglected, first by the Dutch, and then later by the English (France was never really a major naval power).
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Lopes Sarmento de Carvalho considerou bem a situação; defendeu-se com inspiração, experiênxcia e coragem Lusitana! Explosivos foram sempre uma arma á mão dos sitiados. parabéns á audácia e preparaÇÃO DA INTELEIGENCIA do calmo, ponderado e astuto comandante Português.
Thank you for another interesting story about Portugal!❤️🇵🇹💪
Descobri-te no reddit e já consumi todos os teus vídeos. Os meus parabéns, continua!
Muito obrigado! :)
I think the way that made possible for Portugal to hold on to such a big empire for so long, being a small country and with so limited armed forces, was shown in this video: the sympathy won on local indigenous populations, the feeling of being Portuguese shared by Asian, African, South American natives on Portuguese ground. It's the reason why the dutch, for instance, were defeated in Brasil, África, and to less extent, Asia. It was locals, no matter their skin colour, under Portuguese flag defending against Dutch, Spanish, French or even English. Also it was probably the motive to the fact that Portugal was the last European country to hold on to it's colonial Empire, witch is odd, being such a small one and so poor in resources, and later, in technology. Still today, there's people in the ex-colonies now independent countries by their own right, that remember Portuguese rule with friendship and "saudade" (look it up).
Except for Brasil, brasilians just want their gold back... 😂
Anyway, thanks for the video, hope you make some more on Portuguese history. Cheers.
Como brasileiro, eu me encho de orgulho desta pequena nação, que mesmo em inferioridade numérica, lutava com bravura e coragem contra as hostes inimigas.
Um salve do estado da Paraíba, Brasil, aos lusitanos do velho continente 🇧🇷🤝🇵🇹
I m not giving back any gold!😆saudações de 🇵🇹👍
No Brasil Ficou 80% Do Ouro para investir os 20% são Impostos para a Coroa Portuguesa como qualquer país se organiza ainda hoje ate pago mais que 20%😂
Which is ironic since, out of all those countries, the brazilians house the biggest number of colonizer descendants and non-indigenous people.
60 anos de união Ibérica, a maior tragédia que aconteceu com os portugueses. Sou nativo Pernambuco, e as plantações de cana de açúcar, motivo da guerra, estão produzindo até hoje 482 de trabalho.
It has always interested me how in all these Portuguese - Dutch wars, in Asia, Africa and South America, the Dutch could never come to terms with the often multi ethnic composition of the Portuguese forces.
In fact. Even admitting defeat, they tried to diminish the Portuguese fighters saying most Macau soldiers were Africans. That's some serious hatred and despise. Makes me think about those claims of the Dutch PM about the Portuguese spending all the EU money in "girls and alcohol", a few years ago... the prejudice is strong over there.
The Portuguese always good on balistic
Either way the Dutch actually stole most of Portugal's possessions in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, taking advantage of the sixty long years of the marriage between the crowns of Portugal and Spain.
Hi Diogo. The naval museum in Amsterdam actually highlights this. I was quite surprised when I visited. It says something along the lines of 'A lot of the Dutch empire came at the expense of the Portuguese'. In regards to your second point - Yes, the Iberian union was more negative than positive for Portugal. Thanks for watching!
@@BeforeUsHistory if we were never with spanish crown for sure Dutch had no chance against the portuguese spanish fuck us up
@André Filipe Oliveira Acho que a Espanha não é culpada, a forma como os holandeses atuaram foi bárbara e digna de maior destaque em Portugal até nos dias atuais e currículos escolares.
@@BeforeUsHistory Really grateful for that info which is also an insight into my original remark. Good to know. Thank you.
And the Dutch were defeated both in Brazil and Angola
A good Commander can do the impossible with personal charisma, discipline, and strategy. That's precisely what happened at Macau on that glorious victory day.
Big mistake. Everybody knows that it was necessary to defeat 150 portugueses more than 1300 dutch...
Great Portugal
Macau, Portas do cerco: "A Pátria honrai, que a Pátria vos comtempla".
I’m from macao
Small detail:
Between 1580 and 1640 the sovereigns of Portugal were the kings of Spain.
Only the fact that the administration of Macau had not been taken over by the Spaniards explain the fact that the here living Portuguese and others here established were the protagonists in this event celebrated today.
The reason why the city was later named “the loyal city of Macau” was because Macau was probably the only place in the world at the time where the Portuguese flag stayed raised, and where one major incident have been successfully fought in the name of Portugal.
the same in Goa....
Exactly 400 years to the date the battle was fought today (June 22nd)
We the Portuguese never had the hability of "singing" our deeds like for ex. the Brits. Our History is so rich that if any Hollywood director had the curiosity of learning it he would had for shore several blockbuster movies.
But we the Portuguese, we are born from such a strange breed that even if we were the first ones on Mars he couldn't tell to others the same way it really happened because we wouldn't be able to do it so ... some are genious on writing books others find greatness on living them.
Does anyone knows the life story of the Portuguese pirate Bartolomeu Português, the one that wrote the 1st "pirates code" later followed by the pirates John Philips, Edward Low, etc?
Or, does annyone knows the life story of Pero da Covilhã the spy of the Portuguese king D. João II that by his own deeds changed Europe's geopolitical scenario?
... I could be here the following weeks because with almost 900 years of age Portugal has a lot to tell but we just don't know how!!!
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Portuguese gunnery was as good as British gunnery. Had the Spanish allowed them free rein against Drake's ships, rather than trying to board them, the outcome of the Spanish Armada may have been different.
The countries that produced the most diamonds changed over time. India was the world's first diamond producer, starting in the 1400s when Indian diamonds began to be sold in Venice and other European trading centres.
In the 1700s, India's supply of diamonds dwindled and Brazil became the world's leading source of diamonds.
Well done .
Império Português ❤️
Them find out about the battle of Diu....Portugal against 3 powers ...
That was epic! One of the most spectacular battles in History!! So little credit to Portugal. That’s because the Portuguese are very humble. ❤
Very interesting video though a decidedly odd choice of visuals. Your Dutch and Portuguese pronunciation is pretty good; Chinese, er, less so. Interesting subject, so more on Macao, please.
…já agora, mantenham-se atentos ao que acontecerá em breve em Portugal… ás vezes, a história repete-se….
Exatamente!!! Há um renascimento português a acontecer
A única diferença e que a maioria dos portos comerciais da Ásia era dominado pela VOC Portugal tinha colônias em partes e os holandeses dominaram os portos da maioria da Asia. Na América do Sul a WGC não conseguiu se estabelecer
You should use the contemporary portuguese flag (white and blue), not the 1910 republican (green and red) flag.
Please do videos more often ☺️
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The Dutch benefited from the knowledge of portuguese Jews expelled from Portugal, due the Inquisition, in the XVI century.
If Portugal today have a good naval and air miitary forces would by good to see,,,, our navy today was a two subarime Type 212 the rest need upgrades. few but good.
I repeat here what I said in a reply to a certain arrogant Dutch, arrogance is a kind of trade mark of them:
- that's why today your language "is" one of the principal of planet Earth, "being spoken" from Flanders "to Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, many Atlantic islands, East Timor"... etc. Try to be not too much fussy. It's grotesque.
In the xvii century the essential commercial interest turned to the Atlantic trade, that's why a country with a tiny population like Portugal, preferred to invest all forces in Brazil, Angola, St. Tomé and Cabo Verde. That allowed to expel - with the enthusiastic help of the black slaves and Brazilian Indian tribes - the Dutch invaders from the mentioned territories in exactly the same period that Portugal was fighting with Spain for the recover of the independence. It was not quite easy as you easily can understand.
More, the Dutch were deeply distasted from South America to Africa, India and China for their arrogance, greed and inhumanity. They dare to publish panfleto propaganda distributed by all Europe justifying their extermination war against the Portuguese. By their words, "the Portuguese are infamous and damned, they inbreed with animals". Animals? Here they are: Africans, Amerindians, asians of all regions like Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Malacca, China, Japan, Java, Timor. To the Batavian they were not humans, just animals, guess why most of the Dutch traders established in West Pacific learned how to speak Portuguese, even some of the governors sent by Amsterdam to Batavia. Because was the connection language in the vast area since the xvith century. Today, XXIst century, how many independent countries have the Dutch language as oficial idiom?
Next 15 decades from 160 were the turn of the English to become by far superior in commercial and militar navy, finishing to capture from the Dutch the Cape, Ceylon, many Caribbean islands, New York place, all India and even Malacca.
PORTUGAL CARALHO
Porque?
“Japanese mercenaries”
every situation is improved when you throw a few samurai into it
Hey, thanks for your interest in my country's History. You are Brit, I trust?
Why wouldn't the Dutch just come back with more soldiers? Enjoyed the video!
Hi Henry. I couldn't find any information on this. So I'll just give my personal opinion. The Dutch fleet was pretty damaged in this battle. By the time they could regather and mount another attack, the Portuguese and Spanish would've reinforced defences. Also, the battle probably highlighted that taking Macau would need a lot more men. Remember that the Spanish had a base in Manilla. The Dutch would have to reinforce from much further away.
Because more will die...
underdogs, hey? cool, i like it... im one kkkkkkk Long Live Portugal
0:35 incorrect portuguese flag
de Carvalho gave your accent away. xD
manowar is
I think the dutches are the underdog at time era because they were like colonized by spain and just rebuilding itself and patriotical things mostly going on in the netherlands?
Japan expelled the Portuguese during the Iberian Union.
I guess nobody wants the “Spaniards” bossing around.
Cheers ✌🏼
the portugese copied the low chinese dow ship styled enclosed rear open low mid high front rather than fully enclosed many levels europen shop building styled
Portuguese artirely smoked lucky strikes ...
Hehe ... He heee
Just came in to say 800 vs 50 ahahahahahahahah
Dutch has defeated and expelled Portuguese from Various nations around the World, Sri Lanka is a Great example, Dutch fought like Lions in Sri Lanka, expelling Portuguese for good from the Shores of Zeylon.
Quiet you!
@@MrColuber hahaha HA
You stupid? The Varmans (founded by a guy named Aryan, the first king of Parthia) and Ming fought for Portugal. The Portuguese, under the Habsburg monarchy, offered civilization to the indigenous people (through their nobles) during the early 1600s; the Dutch didn't.
@@williamadamsjap The Varmans descended from Asoka, FYI.
Sri-what? How about Brazil for a "great example" of a global empire?
Portugal Underdog....???!!!
Portugal was the First Global Empire in History changing the World as we know today and you say that Portugal was a European underdog.
Man,your notion and general knowledge of the Role of Portugal in the History of Mankind is a little bit twisted.
When Portugal reached Japan( with Brasil,African colonies,India,Malaca ,China and dozens of comercial outposts spread by the knowed World,england was still playing around with european neighbours and sending some pirates to pluder Portuguese and Spanish ships. Portugal has a colonie in china (Macau) since the beggining if the 16th Century while England only 300 hundred years later was able to estabelish one.
Call Underdog to the country who Started All and changed the world Forever is a very Diminishing and Derogatory sentence,not to call another not so pleasent word.