Battle of Jambi
| Battle of Jambi (1630) | |||||||
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| Part of Dutch–Portuguese War | |||||||
Portuguese galleon fighting Dutch and English warships | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Dutch East India Company English East India Company | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Nuno Álvares Botelho † Rui Freire de Andrade | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 27 ships | 28 ships | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 galliot sunk | 7 ships burned or captured | ||||||
The Battle of Jambi in 1630 was a naval engagement between Portuguese, Dutch and English ships in the Indonesian archipelago. Although the Portuguese won this battle, their commander Nuno Álvares Botelho, who is renowned in Portugal as one of the last great commanders of Portuguese India, drowned during the confrontation.
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