The Battle of Macau | Portugal’s INCREDIBLE Defence Against the Dutch Republic 

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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❤

🇵🇹By far the greatest navigators warriors and sailors in human history,none can even get closer! Portugal gave worlds to the world🇵🇹💚

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.

The last recorded Portugal x The Netherlands battle was 2006 the Battle of Nuremberg

The greatest navy of all time, the Portuguese.

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

The irony of course is had the Dutch succeeded in conquering Macao, the Chinese would almost certainly have expelled them soon after.

1554? I didn’t realise Macau was so old! Much older than Hong Kong, leased to the UK in 1898.

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...

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).

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.

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!❤️🇵🇹💪

"If God speaks Portuguese, I do not know. But these cannons do!" - Dom Francisco de Almeida.

The Dutch also had problems in Brazil back when it was a colony of Portugal.

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The Portuguese always good on balistic

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.

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...

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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.

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.

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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.

Well done .

Macau, Portas do cerco: "A Pátria honrai, que a Pátria vos comtempla".

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.

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.

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.

Exactly 400 years to the date the battle was fought today (June 22nd)

Império Português ❤️

I’m from macao

…já agora, mantenham-se atentos ao que acontecerá em breve em Portugal… ás vezes, a história repete-se….

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

Them find out about the battle of Diu....Portugal against 3 powers ...

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.

“Japanese mercenaries” every situation is improved when you throw a few samurai into it

Why wouldn't the Dutch just come back with more soldiers? Enjoyed the video!

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Hey, thanks for your interest in my country's History. You are Brit, I trust?

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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.

0:35 incorrect portuguese flag

You should use the contemporary portuguese flag (white and blue), not the 1910 republican (green and red) flag.

de Carvalho gave your accent away. xD

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

underdogs, hey? cool, i like it... im one kkkkkkk Long Live Portugal

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?

Portuguese artirely smoked lucky strikes ... Hehe ... He heee

Just came in to say 800 vs 50 ahahahahahahahah

Japan expelled the Portuguese during the Iberian Union. I guess nobody wants the “Spaniards” bossing around. Cheers ✌🏼

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.