• The Recapture of Angola, or Reconquest of Angola, was a military campaign fought between the Portuguese and the Dutch occupiers of Angola. Its most important...
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    Portuguese force consisting of 52 ships and 12,500 men recaptured the city. The city would then play a critical role as a base of the Portuguese struggle...
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    Republic of Angola. (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) For continuation after independence, see: List of presidents of Angola Colonial...
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    Dutch West India Company (category Defunct companies of the Netherlands)
    shipping were forbidden to the GWC. The Portuguese succeeded in the recapture of Angola. Many merchants from Amsterdam and Zeeland decided to work with marine...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    setback of the Portuguese Recapture of Angola, which crippled the Dutch colony in Brazil as it couldn't survive without the slaves from Angola, opinion...
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    Angola was first settled by San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo. In...
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  • Portuguese colonial rule." George, Edward (2012). The Cuban intervention in Angola, 1965–1991: From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale. London: Routledge. p. 354...
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    period of the Dutch occupation. After Angola was recaptured by the Portuguese in 1648, Dutch trade with Loango-Angola did not stop, however. From about 1670...
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    The recapture of Bahia (Portuguese: Jornada dos Vassalos; Spanish: Jornada del Brasil) was a Spanish–Portuguese military expedition in 1625 to retake the...
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  • The 1970s in Angola, a time of political and military turbulence, saw the end of Angola's War of Independence (1961–1975) and the outbreak of civil war (1975–2002)...
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    the Fortress of Massangano. In 1648, the Portuguese recaptured Luanda, with the Dutch leaving Angola. Njinga continued to fight the Portuguese until a peace...
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  • September – Cossack pyrrhic victory Recapture of Angola – Portuguese retake Angola from Dutch-Kongolese troops Battle of Mazyr 8–9 February – Polish forces...
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  • The 1977 Angolan coup d'état attempt was a failed attempt by the Angolan interior minister Nito Alves to overthrow the government of Agostinho Neto. It...
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    Filips van Zuylen's campaign against Luanda (category Angola–Portugal relations)
    later in 1648, it was reconquered by the Portuguese. Dutch Loango-Angola Recapture of Angola Carvalhal, Hélder; Murteira, André; Jesus, Roger Lee de (2021-04-05)...
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    During Angola's civil war, Cuban forces fought alongside the Marxist–Leninist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) government; against...
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  • restoration of Portuguese colonial possession (or joint Portuguese and Spanish rule) following periods of Dutch occupation Reconquest of Angola Recapture of Bahia...
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  • In the 1990s in Angola, the last decade of the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002), the Angolan government transitioned from a nominally communist state to...
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    The Recapture of Recife (or Second Siege of Recife) was a military engagement between the Portuguese forces under Francisco Barreto de Meneses and the...
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    strategic settlement of Quifangondo, Luanda Province, between the People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), armed wing of the People's Movement...
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    in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. At its greatest...
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    Katangese Gendarmerie (category State of Katanga)
    Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). When the war ended in 1975, they fought in the Angolan Civil War...
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    Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Cabral Couceiro (category Governors of Portuguese Angola)
    occupation of Angola and Mozambique and for his dedication to the Monarchist Cause during the period of the First Portuguese Republic through the founding of the...
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    War. Portugal repelled Dutch attempts to secure Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola, but the Dutch disrupted the Portuguese trading networks in Asia, where...
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  • Operation Kitona (category Battles involving Angola)
    holding out until the 28th. Once recaptured, these cities were once again subject to rape and looting by the victorious Angolan troops. It is widely believed...
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    Manikongo (category Manikongo of Kongo)
    title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, a kingdom that existed from the 14th to the 19th centuries and consisted of land in present-day Angola, Gabon...
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    Shaba I (category Wars involving Angola)
    Liberation of the Congo (FNLC), a group of about 2,000 Katangan Congolese soldiers who were veterans of the Congo Crisis, the Angolan War of Independence...
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  • Azul — Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands Corporate — British recapture of the islands Paraquet — British recapture of South Georgia. Black Buck...
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    Billy the Kid (category Nicknames of outlaws of the American Old West)
    Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to nine murders: four for which he was solely...
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    M23 campaign (2022–present) (category Civil wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    and Kakenge, following Wazalendo's recapture of several villages in the Mutambala sector. The strategic village of Kawera was retaken by Wazalendo, which...
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