Regional1665

Battle of Ambuila

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Angola

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Ambuila (1665), part of the Portuguese Colonial Wars in Africa. Portugal defeated Kongo.

Belligerents2

Portugal
Kongo

ON THE MAPKingdom of Kongo

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese Conquest of Angola

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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