Significant1640 – 1668 · 28 years

Portuguese Restoration War

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

Portugal · Iberian Peninsula

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

The Portuguese war of independence from Spanish rule that established the House of Braganza.

Belligerents2

Portugal
Spain

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Montijo1644
Battle of Elvas1659
Battle of Ameixial1663
Battle of Montes Claros1665

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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