Battle of Mbwila (also the Battle of Ambuila, Battle of Mbuila, or Battle of Ulanga) occurred on 29 October 1665 in which Portuguese forces defeated the...
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Mbwila, and their rival armies met each other at Ulanga, in the valley below Mbanza Mbwila, capital of the district.[citation needed] At the Battle of...
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Mvita a Nkanga) was a mwenekongo of the Kingdom of Kongo who ruled from 1661 to his defeat and death at the Battle of Mbwila on October 29, 1665. He was elected...
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Kongo Civil War (category Wars of succession involving the states and peoples of Africa)
met at the Battle of Mbwila on October 29, 1665.: 121 In the ensuing battle, Kongo was badly defeated.: 103 King António I and many of the Kinlaza...
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Zumbi (redirect from National Day of Black Consciousness)
descent. They were brought to the Americas after the Battle of Mbwila. The Portuguese won the battle eventually, killing 5,000 men, and captured the king...
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Mbwila was a historical small state located in what is modern-day Angola. Its rulers, like those of the surrounding areas, bore the title Ndembu, and...
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mid-seventeenth century, following the Battle of Mbwila, these factions were short-lived and fluctuating, but following the battle, factions were much firmer and...
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Kimpa Vita (redirect from Dona Beatrice of Kongo)
shortly after the death of António I at the Battle of Mbwila in 1665, and had resulted in the abandonment of the ancient capital of São Salvador (present-day...
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Musketeer (category Military units and formations of the Early Modern period)
musketeers served in the Kongo army against the Portuguese at the Battle of Mbwila in 1665. Musketeers were employed into the Wydah army from 1680 AD...
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Aqualtune (category Date of birth unknown)
a force of ten thousand Kongo men and women in the Battle of Mbwila, where she was captured in defeat. She was then transported to the Port of Recife,...
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Ganga Zumba (category Brazilian people of Angolan descent)
the son of princess Aqualtune, daughter of an unknown king of Kongo. She led a battalion at the Battle of Mbwila. The Portuguese won the battle, eventually...
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that followed the Battle of Mbwila of 1665, the first of them in 1668, and was abandoned in 1678, after being destroyed by the troops of the pretender to...
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Central Africa (redirect from Demographics of Central Africa)
(1661–1665), with a Kongolese army of 5,000, was destroyed by an army of Afro-Portuguese at the Battle of Mbwila. The empire dissolved into petty polities...
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published in England. 1665: The Great Plague of London. 1665: Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila. 1665–1667: The Second Anglo-Dutch War...
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M'banza-Kongo (category Capitals of former nations)
city was sacked several times during the civil wars that followed the Battle of Mbwila (or Ulanga) in 1665, and was abandoned in 1678. It was reoccupied in...
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at the Battle of Mbwila. 1665–1667: The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces. 1666: The Great Fire of London. 1666: Shivaji...
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Kingdom of Kongo, mostly viewing it as a source of slaves. In 1665 a Portuguese army invaded the Kingdom and defeated its army at the Battle of Mbwila. The...
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until his disastrous loss at the Battle of Mbwila on 29, 1665. the Portuguese suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Kitombo when they tried to invade...
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Antonianism (category History of Christianity in Africa)
in the Kingdom of Kongo between 1704 and 1708, as a development out of the Catholic Church in Kongo, yet without denying the authority of the Pope. Its...
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Marcellino d'Atri (category Roman Catholic missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
rights of patronage, and the Kingdom of Kongo was in terminal decline. The kingdom had been defeated by the Portuguese in the Battle of Mbwila in 1665...
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Kongo religion (category Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
traditional beliefs of the Bakongo people. Due to the highly centralized position of the Kingdom of Kongo, its leaders were able to influence much of the traditional...
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Vita) were the most important. The battle of Mbwila (or battle of Ambouilla or battle of Ulanga) was the result of a conflict between the Portuguese, led...
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of Kongo in the Battle of Mbwila Revolutions of Tunis or the Muradid War of Succession (1675–1705), after the death of bey Murad II of Tunis Dahomey succession...
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Portuguese Angola (redirect from Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola)
Battle of Mbwila on 29 October, 1665, but suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Kitombo when they tried to invade Kongo in 1670. Control of most...
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Angola (redirect from Republic of Angola)
that of his son and successor, António I. He was killed in 1665 by Portuguese at the Battle of Mbwila 1665, together with a substantial proportion of the...
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António I of Kongo at the Battle of Mbwila on 29 October 1665. Sequeira died in the Battle of Katole on 4 September 1681. Sequeira is the subject of a play...
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Soyon leader. In 1665 the Kingdom of Kongo clashed with their one-time allies the Portuguese at the Battle of Mbwila. The engagement resulted in a crushing...
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The following is a list of wars involving Portugal. Military history of Portugal Unofficial Portuguese soldiers just helped the Zamorin. See also: Auxiliary...
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young. Aqualtune was a princess of Kongo who led an army of ten thousand in the Battle of Mbwila, where she was captured. She was enslaved and carried to...
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