Regional1580

Battle of Alcantara

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Portugal

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Alcantara (1580), part of the Spanish-Portuguese War. Spain defeated Portugal.

Belligerents2

Spain
Portugal

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)Kingdom of Portugal

Conflict graph

PART OFSpanish-Portuguese Union Wars

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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