20,000 Mbundu archers 10,000 Portuguese infantry and Imbangala mercenaries
2,000–3,000 archers 200 heavy infantry.[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Heavy losses including much of the light infantry and 90 heavy infantry
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Portuguese colonial campaigns
15th century
Morocco (1415)
Morocco (1419)
Morocco (1437)
Morocco (1458)
Morocco (1463-64)
Morocco (1468)
Morocco (1471)
Guinea (1478)
Morocco (1487)
Morocco (1490)
16th century
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Sumatra (1523-24)
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Java (1527)
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East Africa (1528)
Persian Gulf (1529)
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Brazil (1534-1536)
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Persian Gulf (1551)
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17th century
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18th century
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19th century
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The Battle of Mbumbi was a military engagement between forces of Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom of Kongo in 1622. Although the Portuguese were victorious, the battle served as the impetus for the Kingdom of Kongo to expel the Portuguese from their territory.
^Thornton, John (1999). Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800. UCL Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-85728-392-1.
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