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Battle of Mbwila

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Mbwila · Ulanga

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Catastrophic Kongo defeat in which King Antonio I was killed by Portuguese-led forces, shattering the unitary monarchy and inaugurating the Kongo Civil War.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Kongo
Portuguese Empire

ON THE MAPKingdom of Kongo

Conflict graph

PART OFKongo Civil War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Mbwila (1665). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-mbwila · Sources & methodology