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Portuguese Restoration War

Portuguese Restoration War
Part of Anglo-Spanish Wars and Franco-Spanish Wars

German engraving from the 1650s representing the episodes of the Portuguese restoration of independence. Clockwise from top left:
Date1 December 1640 – 13 February 1668
(27 years, 2 months, 1 week, 6 days)
Location
Result

Portuguese victory[4]

Territorial
changes
Portugal cedes Ceuta to Spain
Portugal cedes Hermisende to Spain
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders

The Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação),[7] was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union. The period from 1640 to 1668 was marked by periodic skirmishes between Portugal and Spain, as well as short episodes of more serious warfare, much of it occasioned by Spanish and Portuguese entanglements with non-Iberian powers. Spain was involved in the Thirty Years' War until 1648 and the Franco-Spanish War until 1659, while Portugal was involved in the Dutch–Portuguese War until 1663.

In the seventeenth century and afterwards, this period of sporadic conflict was simply known, in Portugal and elsewhere, as the Acclamation War. The war established the House of Braganza as Portugal's new ruling dynasty, replacing the House of Habsburg who had been united with the Portuguese crown since the 1580 succession crisis.[5]

Events leading to revolution edit

 
Philip II & III of Portugal and Spain.

When Philip II of Portugal (III of Spain) died, he was succeeded by his son Philip III of Portugal (IV of Spain) who followed a different approach to Portuguese concerns. Portuguese merchants saw higher taxes, the Portuguese nobility began to lose its influence at the Spanish Cortes, and Spaniards increasingly occupied the government's posts in Portugal.

Ultimately, Philip III tried to make Portugal into a Spanish province, and Portuguese nobles stood to lose all of their power.[citation needed]

Moreover, Spain entangled Portugal in the efforts to suppress the independence of the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. In response, the Dutch embarked on systematic attacks on Portuguese colonies and outposts, either pillaging or occupying them in what is known as the Dutch–Portuguese War. The Portuguese felt great resentment at what they perceived as Spain prioritizing the protection of its own colonies, while neglecting the defense of the Portuguese ones.

The situation culminated in a revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie, executed on 1 December 1640, sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch".

The plot was planned by Antão Vaz de Almada, Miguel de Almeida and João Pinto Ribeiro. They, together with several associates, known as the Forty Conspirators, killed the Secretary of State, Miguel de Vasconcelos, and imprisoned the king's cousin, Margaret of Savoy, who had been governing Portugal in his name. Philip's troops were then fighting the Thirty Years' War and also facing a revolution in the Principality of Catalonia, which became known as the Reapers' War.

The support of the people became apparent almost immediately and within a matter of hours, Philip III's third cousin John, 8th Duke of Braganza, was acclaimed as King John IV of Portugal. The news spread quickly throughout the country. By 2 December 1640, the day after the coup, John IV, acting in his capacity as sovereign of the country, had sent a letter to the Municipal Chamber of Évora.

The ensuing conflict with Spain brought Portugal into the Thirty Years' War as at least a peripheral player. From 1641 to 1668, the period during which the two nations were at war, Spain sought to isolate Portugal militarily and diplomatically, and Portugal tried to find the resources to maintain its independence through political alliances and maintaining its colonial income.

Preparations for war edit

Immediately after assuming the Portuguese throne, John IV took several steps to strengthen his position. On 11 December 1640, a 'Council of War' was created to organize all of the operations. Next, the king created the 'Junta of the Frontiers' to take care of the fortresses near the border, the hypothetical defense of Lisbon, and the garrisons and sea ports.

A year later, in December 1641, he created a tenancy to assure that all of the country's fortresses would be upgraded and that the improvements would be financed with regional taxes. He also organized the army, re-established the 'Military Laws of King Sebastian', and undertook a diplomatic campaign focused on restoring good relations with England.

After gaining several small victories, John tried to make peace quickly. However, his demand that Philip recognize the new ruling dynasty in Portugal was not fulfilled until the reign of his son, Afonso VI, during the regency of Peter of Braganza, another of his sons, who later became King Peter II of Portugal). Confrontations with Spain lasted 28 years.

Context: relations among the European powers edit

 
John II, Duke of Braganza, waged the Restoration War and was acclaimed King John IV.

Relations between France and Spain edit

Cardinal Richelieu, the chief adviser to Louis XIII of France, was fully aware of the fact that France was operating under strained circumstances. Louis was at war with Spain at that time; he had to control rebellions within France that were supported and financed by Madrid and had to send French armies to fight the Spanish Habsburgs on three different fronts. In addition to their shared frontier at the Pyrenees, Philip IV of Spain, formerly Philip III of Portugal as well, reigned, under various titles, in Flanders and the Franche-Comté, to the north and east of France. In addition, Philip IV controlled large territories in Italy, where he could, at will, impose a fourth front by attacking French-controlled Savoy (In Savoy, Christine Marie of France was acting as regent on behalf of her young son, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy).

Spain had enjoyed the reputation of having the most formidable military force in Europe, with the introduction of the arquebus and the so-called "Spanish School", but that reputation and tactic had diminished with the Thirty Years' War. Nevertheless, the consummate statesman, Richelieu, decided to force Philip IV to look to his own internal problems. To divert the Spanish troops besieging France, Louis XIII, on the advice of Richelieu, supported John's claim during the Acclamation War on the reasoning that a Portuguese war would drain Spanish resources and manpower.

Relations between Portugal and France edit

To fulfill the common foreign policy interests of Portugal and France, a treaty of alliance between the two countries was concluded at Paris on 1 June 1641. It lasted eighteen years before Richelieu's successor as unofficial foreign minister, Cardinal Mazarin, broke the treaty and abandoned his Portuguese and Catalan allies to sign a separate peace with Madrid. The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed in 1659. Under its terms, France received the portion of the Principality of Catalonia north of the Pyrenees, known as the Roussillon, and part of the Cerdanya (French Cerdagne). Most important to the Portuguese, the French recognised Philip IV of Spain as the legitimate king of Portugal.

Seven years later, in the late stages of the Portuguese Restoration War, relations between the two countries thawed to the extent that the young (but sickly) Afonso VI of Portugal married a French princess, Marie Françoise of Nemours.

Relations between Portugal and the Dutch Republic edit

 
Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

At the time of the revolution in Lisbon (1 December 1640), the Portuguese had been at war with the Dutch for nearly forty years. A good deal of the conflict can be attributed to the fact that Spain and the Dutch Republic were concurrently engaged in the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), and, ever since hostilities between Portugal and the Dutch Republic erupted in 1602, Portugal had been ruled by a Spanish monarch.

The Dutch-Portuguese War was fought almost entirely overseas, with the Dutch mercantile surrogates, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company, repeatedly attacking Portugal's colonial possessions in the Americas, in Africa, in India, and in the Far East. Portugal was in a defensive posture throughout, and it received very little military help from Spain.

After the acclamation of John, the pattern persisted all over the Portuguese Empire until the final expulsion of the Dutch from Angola (1648), São Tomé (1649), and Brazil (1654). The Dutch signed a European truce with Portugal, helping each other somewhat against their common enemy, Spain. The Dutch resumed buying salt in the Setúbal salt factories, restarting commerce between the two countries for the first time since 1580, when the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs, against whom the Dutch were in revolt, had assumed the Portuguese throne. However, Dutch attacks on Portuguese territories persisted until 1663, even after the signing of the Treaty of The Hague in 1661.

Relations between Portugal and England edit

England was then embroiled in its own civil war. Portuguese problems in dealing with England arose from the fact that the English Parliament fought and won its anti-royalist war while, at the same time, Portugal's royal court continued to receive and recognize English princes and nobles. The strained relations persisted during the short-lived Commonwealth period, when the republican government that had deposed Charles I ruled England and then Ireland and Scotland.

After the restoration of the Stuart dynasty, it became possible for Portugal to compensate for the lack of French support by renewing its alliance with England, with experienced soldiers and officers available from the demobilised New Model Army. That took the form of a dynastic marriage between Charles II and Afonso VI's sister, Catherine of Braganza, which assured Portugal of outside support in its conflict with Spain. The English alliance helped peace with Spain, which had been drained by the Thirty Years' War and had no stomach for further warfare with other European powers, especially a resurgent England.

War edit

Militarily, the Portuguese Restoration War consisted mainly of border skirmishes and cavalry raids to sack border towns, combined with occasional invasions and counter-invasions, many of them half-hearted and under-financed. There were only five major set-piece battles during twenty-eight years of hostilities.

The war may be considered to have had three periods:

  • first, an early stage (1640–1646) when a few major engagements demonstrated that the Portuguese could not be easily returned to submission to the Spanish Habsburgs,
  • second, a long period (1646–1660) of military standoffs, characterized by small-scale raiding, while Spain concentrated on its military commitments elsewhere in Europe,
  • third, a final period (1660–1668) during which the Spanish king, Philip IV, unsuccessfully sought a decisive victory that would bring an end to hostilities.

First stage: battles edit

 
António Luís de Meneses, Marquis of Marialva, led victories at the Lines of Elvas.

Hoping for a quick victory in Portugal, Spain immediately committed seven regiments to the Portuguese frontier, but delays by the Count of Monterrey, a commander with more interest in the comforts of life at camp than the battlefield, squandered any immediate advantage. A Portuguese counter-thrust in late 1641 failed, and the conflict soon settled into a stalemate.

Battle of Montijo edit

On 26 May 1644, a large column of Spanish troops and mercenaries, commanded by Neapolitan Carlo Andrea Caracciolo, marquis of Torrecuso, was stopped at the Battle of Montijo by the Portuguese, who were led by the Matias de Albuquerque, one of a number of experienced Portuguese colonial officers who rose to prominence during the war.

Atrocities edit

The war now took on a peculiar character. It became a frontier confrontation, often between local forces, neighbours who knew each other well, but this familiarity did not moderate the destructive and blood-thirsty impulses of either side. The wanton nature of the combat was often exacerbated by the use of mercenaries and foreign conscripts; incidents of singular cruelty were reported on both sides. The Portuguese settled old animosities that had festered during sixty years of Spanish domination, and the Spanish often took the view that their opponents were disloyal and rebellious subjects, not an opposing army entitled to respectful treatment under the rules of combat.

Scope of the war edit

 
Luisa de Guzmán, Queen Consort of Portugal, previously Duchess of Braganza.

Three theaters of warfare were eventually opened, but most activity focused on the northern front, near Galicia, and on the central frontier between Portuguese Alentejo and Spanish Extremadura. The southern front, where the Portuguese Algarve abuts Spanish Andalusia, was a logical target for Portugal, but it was never the focus of a Portuguese attack, probably because the Portuguese queen, Luisa de Guzmán, was the sister of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, the leading noble of Andalusia.

Attrition and corruption edit

Spain, at first, made the war a defensive one. Portugal, for its part, felt no need to take Spanish territory in order to win, and it too was willing to make the war a defensive contest. Campaigns typically consisted of correrias (cavalry raids) to burn fields, sack towns, and steal large herds of enemy cattle and sheep. Soldiers and officers, many of them mercenaries, were primarily interested in booty and prone to desertion. For long periods, without men or money, neither side mounted formal campaigns, and when actions were taken, they were often driven as much by political considerations, such as Portugal's need to impress potential allies, as by clear military objectives. Year after year, given the problems of campaigning in the winter, and the heat and dry conditions of summer, most of the serious fighting was confined to two relatively short "campaign seasons" in the spring and autumn.

The war settled into a pattern of mutual destruction. As early as December 1641, it was common to hear Spaniards throughout the country lament that "Extremadura is finished." Tax collectors, recruiting officers, billeted soldiers, and depredations by Spanish and foreign troops were loathed and feared by the Spanish population as much as raids by the enemy. In Extremadura, local militias bore the brunt of the fighting until 1659, and the absence of these part-time soldiers was extremely harmful to agriculture and local finances. Since there was often no money to pay or support the troops (or to reward their commanders), the Spanish crown turned a blind eye to the smuggling, contraband, profiteering, disorder, and destruction that had become rampant on the frontier. Similar conditions also existed among the Portuguese.

Second stage: defensive standoff edit

 
John of Austria was instrumental in leading the Habsburg forces.

The war was also expensive. In the 1650s, there were over 20,000 Spanish troops in Extremadura alone, compared to 27,000 in Flanders. Between 1649 and 1654, about 29 percent (over six million ducats) of Spanish defence spending was appropriated for fighting Portugal, a figure that rose during the major campaigns of the 1660s. Portugal was able to finance its war effort because of its ability to tax the spice trade with Asia and the sugar trade from Brazil, and it received some support from the European opponents of Spain, particularly France and England.

The 1650s were indecisive militarily but important on the political and diplomatic fronts, with the brief exception of the Battle of the Lines of Elvas in 1659. The death of John IV in 1656 signalled the beginning of the regency of his wife, followed by a succession crisis and a palace coup (1662). Despite these domestic problems, the expulsion of the Dutch from Brazil (1654) and the signing of a treaty with England (also in 1654) improved Portugal's diplomatic and financial position temporarily and gave it needed protection against a naval raid on Lisbon.

Nonetheless, the overriding goal, a formal pact with France, continued to evade Portugal, whose weakness and isolation had been driven home by its virtual exclusion at the negotiations for the European settlement-of-settlements, the new realpolitik of the Peace of Westphalia (1648).

With this treaty and the end of hostilities in Catalonia in 1652, Spain was again ready to direct its efforts against Portugal, but it faced a lack of men, resources, and, especially, good military commanders.

Third stage: Portuguese victory edit

 
Frederico, Count of Mértola, who was in command of the English contingent brigade in Portugal

By 1662, Spain had committed itself to a major effort to end the war. John of Austria the Younger, Philip IV's illegitimate son, led 14,000 men into Alentejo, and, the following year, they succeeded in taking Évora, the major city of the region.

The Portuguese, under António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquess of Marialva, were bolstered by the arrival of a British brigade which numbered 3,000 in August 1662. Many were veterans of the English Civil War and the Dutch Revolt.[8] For King Charles II, this was a convenient way of getting rid of demobilized soldiers of Cromwell's New Model Army and removing them from English territory. They were led by the German soldier of fortune, Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, Count of Mértola, The brigade under Schomberg's leadership, proved a decisive factor in winning back Portugal's independence.[9]

They defeated the Spanish in a major engagement at Ameixial on 8 June 1663, and this forced John of Austria to abandon Évora and retreat across the border with heavy losses.

The Portuguese now had some 30,000 troops in the Alentejo-Extremadura theatre, but they could not draw the Spanish again into a major engagement until June 1665, when a new Spanish commander, the marquis of Caracena, took over Vila Viçosa with about 23,000 men, including recruits from Germany and Italy.

The Portuguese relief column under António Luís de Meneses and Schomberg met them at Montes Claros on 17 June 1665. The Portuguese infantry and artillery emplacements broke the Spanish cavalry, and the Spanish force lost over 10,000 men, including casualties and prisoners. Shortly thereafter, the Portuguese retook Vila Viçosa. These were the last major engagements of the war.

Both sides returned to skirmishing campaigns. Portugal, with the intercession of its English ally, had sought a truce, but after the decisive Portuguese victory at Montes Claros and with the signing of a Franco-Portuguese treaty in 1667, the Spanish Habsburgs finally agreed to recognize the House of Braganza as Portugal's new ruling dynasty on 13 February 1668.

Recapitulation edit

The five major battles of the war were:

The Portuguese were victorious in almost all of these engagements, and peace was concluded, with the help of English mediation, by the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668.

Timeline edit

 
Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, Duchess of Mantua.
 
Afonso VI of Portugal's reign was managed by the Count of Castelo Melhor.
 
Philip III & IV of Portugal and Spain
 
Prince Regent Pedro, Duke of Beja, future King Pedro II of Portugal.
 
 
The Cross of the Order of Christ and the Cross of Burgundy, under white background (or varied background colors, like quarters in green and white in some Portuguese regiments) were the standards more used by the Portuguese and Spanish regiments in the battlefields, respectively[10]
  • 1640: A small group of conspirators stormed the royal palace in Lisbon and deposed the Vicereine of Portugal, Margaret of Savoy on 1 December 1640. She famously tried to calm the Portuguese people during demonstrations in the Terreiro do Paço, at the time, Lisbon's main square, but her efforts failed. The Duke of Bragança, head of the senior family among the Portuguese nobility, accepted the throne as John IV of Portugal later the same day. John's entire reign was dominated by the struggle to maintain Portuguese independence.
  • 1641: A counter-revolution mounted by the Inquisition failed. It was quelled by Francisco de Lucena, who had its leaders executed. Miguel Luís de Menezes, 2nd Duke of Caminha, was executed for continuing to support the Habsburgs' claim to the Portuguese throne.
  • 1641: Portugal signed alliances with France (1 June 1641) and Sweden (August 1641).
  • 1641: Portugal and the Dutch Republic signed a 'Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance', otherwise known as the Treaty of The Hague, on 12 July 1641. The treaty was not respected by either party; as a consequence, it had no effect on the Portuguese dependencies of Brazil and Angola that were under Dutch occupation.
  • 1641: The Dutch began their occupation of São Tomé and of Ano Bom on 16 October 1641, where they remained until 6 January 1649. This was clearly a violation of the agreement made with Portugal only three months earlier.
  • 1641: Portugal was ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
  • 1642: The Dutch took over all of the Portuguese Gold Coast (now Ghana).
  • 1643: At the Battle of Rocroi (19 May 1643), in the Ardennes, the French defeated the Spanish.
  • 1644: The Battle of Montijo near Badajoz, between the Portuguese and the Spanish, was fought on 26 May 1644.
  • 1644: The Portuguese city of Elvas withstood a nine-day siege by Spanish troops.
  • 1648: The Sultan of Oman, allied with the Dutch, captured Muscat, which had been a Portuguese trading outpost on the Arabian Peninsula.
  • 1648: Portuguese troops from the colony of Brazil under Salvador Correia de Sá landed in Angola, retook Luanda, and expelled the Dutch, thereby restoring the African colony to Portugal.
  • 1649: The Dutch were ousted from São Tomé.
  • 1654: The Anglo-Portuguese treaty between John IV and Oliver Cromwell was signed at Westminster. John agreed to prevent the molestation of English traders in Portugal and its possessions and to allow them to use their own bible and to bury their dead according to Protestant rites even though they were on Catholic soil.
  • 1654: Portuguese troops from the colony of Brazil drove the Dutch out of the great plantation colonies of northeastern Brazil, re-establishing the territorial integrity of Portugal's South American holdings.
  • 1656: Portugal lost control of Colombo in Portuguese Ceylon to the Dutch.
  • 1656: John IV died on 6 November 1656 after a reign of fifteen years. His queen, who was born Luisa de Guzman (1613–1666), the eldest daughter of the Spanish grandee, the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, then reigned as regent for their son, Afonso VI of Portugal. She began seeking an accommodation with Spain.
  • 1658: The Dutch took Jaffnapatam, Portugal's last colony in Ceylon.
  • 1659: The Battle of the Lines of Elvas was fought on 14 January 1659. Portuguese troops, under the command of the marquis of Marialva, António Luís de Meneses, and Sancho Manoel de Vilhena, scored a resounding victory over the Spanish.
  • 1659: The Spanish besieged the Portuguese town of Monção. The town fell on 7 February.
  • 1659: The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed on 7 November 1659, ending Spain's long war with France, and Spanish troops were free once more to suppress the Portuguese 'rebellion'. The Spaniards besieged Elvas, and they were driven off by António Luís de Meneses once again.
  • 1660: Upon the restoration of Charles II in England, the Queen-Regent re-negotiated the treaty of 1654. Portugal was allowed to recruit soldiers and horses in England for the fight against Spain, to seek the conscription of four thousand mercenaries in Scotland and Ireland, and to charter twenty-four English ships to carry them. The expeditionary force was issued English weapons upon arrival in Portugal and guaranteed freedom of worship.
  • 1660: The English began to dominate the trade in port wine from Portugal after a political spat with the French denied them Bordeaux wines. Brandy was added to the Portuguese wines to fortify them for the Atlantic voyage. Together with the restoration of Charles II in England, the "port connection" had an increasingly positive influence on Anglo-Portuguese relations.
  • 1661: Bombay and Tangier were ceded to England on 23 June 1661 as a dowry for Afonso's sister, Catherine of Braganza, who had married King Charles II of England on 25 May 1661. In addition to the deeds to Bombay and Tangier, Catherine arrived in London, where she popularized the practice of drinking tea, with a dowry of two million gold pieces. Servicing this wedding debt burdened the Portuguese exchequer for the next half-century. The marriage with a Protestant monarch was deeply unpopular with those among the Portuguese nobility who favoured alliance with France. An anglophile party and a francophile party developed at the Portuguese court.
  • 1661: English mediation induced the Netherlands to acknowledge, on 6 August 1661, Portuguese rule in Brazil, in return for uncontested control of Ceylon and eight million guilders. This agreement was formalized in the Treaty of The Hague (1661).
  • 1662: Shortly after Afonso VI's coming-of-age, Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor, saw an opportunity to gain power at court by befriending the mentally deficient king. He managed to convince the king that his mother, Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, was plotting to steal his throne and exile him from Portugal. As a result, Afonso asserted his right to rule and dispatched his mother to a convent. The king appointed Castelo Melhor his secret notary (escrivão da puridade), a position in which Castelo Melhor was able to exercise the functions of first minister. Because of the weakness of the king, Castelo Melhor became the virtual "dictator of Portugal".
  • 1662: Castelo Melhor commenced the final (successful) phase of the Portuguese Acclamation War with the aid of the Count of Mértola, who brilliantly commanded the international mercenary army that had been assembled with the assistance of England.
  • 1663: The Battle of Ameixial was fought on 8 June 1663. After they had spent nearly all spring overrunning the south of Portugal, the Spanish army, under John of Austria the Younger, took the Portuguese city of Évora. Less than three weeks later, they were soundly defeated by Sancho Manoel de Vilhena and Count of Mértola.
  • 1663: The Dutch ousted the Portuguese from the Malabar coast, even though this was a clear violation of their 1661 treaty.
  • 1663: The Siege of Évora occurred when the Portuguese army led by Sancho Manoel de Vilhena and by the Count of Mértola retook the city from the Spanish occupiers, with little to no casualties. The entire Spanish garrison surrendered.
  • 1664: The Battle of Castelo Rodrigo was fought on 7 July 1664. A regional military commander, Pedro Jacques de Magalhães, defeated the Duke of Osuna.
  • 1664: The Siege of Valencia de Alcántara results in the successful conquest of the Spanish town of Valencia de Alcántara by Portugal in July 1664.
  • 1665: Portugal was again victorious at the Battle of Montes Claros (on 17 June 1665), in which António Luís de Meneses and Schomberg defeated the Spanish army under the Marquis of Caracena; Spain ceased hostilities, but a true peace treaty was not signed for another three years. Montes Claros is considered one of the most important battles in Portuguese history.
  • 1666: In an attempt to establish an alliance with France, Castelo Melhor arranged for Afonso VI to marry Marie Françoise of Nemours, the daughter of the Duke of Nemours, but this marriage would not last long.
  • 1666: The ambitious Castelo Melhor planned to prosecute the war to the extent of taking Galicia and presenting it to the Portuguese crown as a war indemnity, but he was dissuaded.
  • 1667: Marie Françoise petitioned for an annulment of her marriage to Afonso VI, based on the impotence of the king. The Church granted her the annulment.
  • 1667: King Afonso VI, Castelo Melhor, and his francophile party were overthrown by the king's younger brother, Pedro, Duke of Beja, (who later ruled as Pedro II of Portugal.) Pedro first installed himself as his brother's regent and then arranged Afonso's exile to the island of Terceira in the Azores on the pretense that he was incapable of governing. Castelo Melhor fled into exile; ironically, he chose to live in England.
  • 1667: The French alliance had been imperilled by the annulment of Afonso's marriage, but Pedro strengthened his political position by marrying his brother's estranged queen.
  • 1668: The Treaty of Lisbon with Spain ended twenty-eight years of war. The regent of Spain, Mariana of Austria, acting in the name of her young son Charles II of Spain, finally recognized the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch. Portugal kept all of its remaining overseas colonies, with the exception of Ceuta on the north African coast, who didn't recognize the Bragança Dynasty during the war.[11]

Results of the war edit

 
Staircase inside the Leal Senado Building in Macau, with a plaque in which the city's name, title and honours are inscribed.

For Portugal, its restoration of independence from Spain was clearly established, and it proved that it could fend for itself, albeit with difficulty. Its victories on the battlefield had re-awakened Portuguese nationalism.

Economically, Portugal's restoration of independence freed it to pursue the course mapped out by the pioneers of commercial imperialism. During the seventeenth century, its economy depended largely upon entrepôt trade in tobacco and sugar, and the export of salt. During the eighteenth century, even though staples were not abandoned, the Portuguese economy came to be based more upon enslaved people, gold, leather, and wine. Portuguese trade, centered in the busy port of Lisbon, was most influenced by Anglo-Dutch capitalism and by the colonial economy in Brazil.[12] Luís de Meneses, the Count of Ericeira, economic adviser to the prince regent, advocated the development of a native textile industry based on a Flemish model. Factories were established at Covilhã, in an area of central Portugal where there was easy access to flocks of sheep and clean mountain water, but they were highly unpopular with both local consumers and traditional weavers. Meanwhile, Portuguese attempts to develop a silk industry were undercut by the French, who wanted to monopolize that market.

More importantly, after 1668, Portugal, determined to differentiate itself from Spain, turned to Western Europe, particularly France and England, for new ideas and skills. This was part of a gradual "de-Iberianization", as Portugal consolidated its cultural and political independence from Spain. Portuguese nationalism, aroused by success on the battlefield, produced hostile reactions to Spain and to Spanish things and persons. By this time, Portuguese society was composed of two basic elements: those who participated in the gradual Europeanization process, the “political nation,” and those who remained largely unchanged, the majority of the people who remained apolitical and passive.[13]

Macau, the Portuguese colony in the Far East, remained loyal to the Portuguese monarch during the entire occupation period. Thus it was awarded the title “Cidade do Nome de Deus, Macau, Não Há Outra Mais Leal”, or “City by the Name of God, Macau, There Is None More Loyal” by King John IV of Portugal in 1654.[14]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Treaty of alliance between France and Portugal concluded in Paris, June 1, 1641. Davenport, Frances Gardiner: European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies to 1648. Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2012. ISBN 9781584774228, pp. 324–328
  2. ^ Glete, Jan (2002). Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650 Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe (E-book ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 176. ISBN 9781134610785.
  3. ^ Pinzelli, Eric G. L. (2020). Masters of Warfare Fifty Underrated Military Commanders from Classical Antiquity to the Cold War (E-book ed.). Pen and Sword Military. p. 151. ISBN 9781399070157.
  4. ^ Anderson, p. 131
  5. ^ a b c Torgal, Luís Reis (1981). "A Restauração – Sua Dinâmica Sócio-política". Ideologia Política e Teoria do Estado na Restauração (in Portuguese). Vol. I. Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. pp. 69–85. hdl:10316/665. ISBN 9789726160823.
  6. ^ Birmingham, p.51
  7. ^ "Guerra da Aclamação". Infopédia. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  8. ^ Paul, Hardacre (1960). The English Contingent in Portugal, 1662–1668, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, volume 38. pp. 112–125.
  9. ^ Riley p. Backcover
  10. ^ "Bandeiras, estandartes, e guiões – exército português (3)". Guerra da Restauração Blog de História Militar dedicado à Guerra da Restauração ou da Aclamação, 1641–1668. 20 April 2008.
  11. ^ Glenn Joseph Ames, Renascent empire?: the House of Braganza and the quest for stability in Portuguese monsoon Asia c. 1640–1683, p. 24
  12. ^ The Making of Modern Europe, 1648–1780
  13. ^ Republican Portugal: A Political History, 1910–1926 by Douglas L. Wheeler
  14. ^ "Step onto Senado Square and into the past: Walking tours bring Macau's Chinese, Portuguese history in focus". South China Morning Post.

References edit

  • Anderson, James Maxwell. The history of Portugal Greenwood Press, 2000 ISBN 0-313-31106-4
  • Birmingham, David. A concise history of Portugal (2003) ISBN 978-0-521-53686-8
  • McMurdo, Edward (2010). The History of Portugal – From the Reign of D. Joao II. to the Reign of D. Joao V. – Volume III. Volume 3. Read Books Design. ISBN 978-1444695694.
  • Riley, Jonathon (2014). The Last Ironsides: The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662–1668. Helion & Company. ISBN 978-1909982208.

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Portuguese Restoration WarPart of Anglo Spanish Wars and Franco Spanish WarsGerman engraving from the 1650s representing the episodes of the Portuguese restoration of independence Clockwise from top left The assassination of Miguel de Vasconcelos and the arresting of the Duchess of Mantua News of the coup d etat reaches the Lisbon populace Acclamation of King John IV of Portugal The Duke of Braganza is sworn as King of PortugalDate1 December 1640 13 February 1668 27 years 2 months 1 week 6 days LocationPortugal and SpainResultPortuguese victory 4 Acclamation of John IV as the new King of Portugal 1640 5 The Habsburgs relinquish all claims to the Portuguese Throne Treaty of Lisbon 1668 End of the Iberian Union 5 6 TerritorialchangesPortugal cedes Ceuta to SpainPortugal cedes Hermisende to SpainBelligerents Portugal France 1641 1659 1 England 1662 1668 Dutch Republic 1641 1648 2 3 SpainCommanders and leadersJohn IV of Portugal Luisa de Guzman Afonso VI of Portugal Peter II of Portugal Marquis of Marialva Count of Vila Flor Count of Alegrete Duke of SchombergPhilip IV of Spain Marquis of Carpio John of Austria Duke of Osuna Marquis of Caracena The Restoration War Portuguese Guerra da Restauracao historically known as the Acclamation War Guerra da Aclamacao 7 was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668 bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union The period from 1640 to 1668 was marked by periodic skirmishes between Portugal and Spain as well as short episodes of more serious warfare much of it occasioned by Spanish and Portuguese entanglements with non Iberian powers Spain was involved in the Thirty Years War until 1648 and the Franco Spanish War until 1659 while Portugal was involved in the Dutch Portuguese War until 1663 In the seventeenth century and afterwards this period of sporadic conflict was simply known in Portugal and elsewhere as the Acclamation War The war established the House of Braganza as Portugal s new ruling dynasty replacing the House of Habsburg who had been united with the Portuguese crown since the 1580 succession crisis 5 Contents 1 Events leading to revolution 2 Preparations for war 3 Context relations among the European powers 3 1 Relations between France and Spain 3 2 Relations between Portugal and France 3 3 Relations between Portugal and the Dutch Republic 3 4 Relations between Portugal and England 4 War 4 1 First stage battles 4 1 1 Battle of Montijo 4 1 2 Atrocities 4 1 3 Scope of the war 4 1 4 Attrition and corruption 4 2 Second stage defensive standoff 4 3 Third stage Portuguese victory 4 4 Recapitulation 5 Timeline 6 Results of the war 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksEvents leading to revolution edit nbsp Philip II amp III of Portugal and Spain When Philip II of Portugal III of Spain died he was succeeded by his son Philip III of Portugal IV of Spain who followed a different approach to Portuguese concerns Portuguese merchants saw higher taxes the Portuguese nobility began to lose its influence at the Spanish Cortes and Spaniards increasingly occupied the government s posts in Portugal Ultimately Philip III tried to make Portugal into a Spanish province and Portuguese nobles stood to lose all of their power citation needed Moreover Spain entangled Portugal in the efforts to suppress the independence of the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years War In response the Dutch embarked on systematic attacks on Portuguese colonies and outposts either pillaging or occupying them in what is known as the Dutch Portuguese War The Portuguese felt great resentment at what they perceived as Spain prioritizing the protection of its own colonies while neglecting the defense of the Portuguese ones The situation culminated in a revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie executed on 1 December 1640 sixty years after the crowning of Philip I Philip II of Spain the first dual monarch The plot was planned by Antao Vaz de Almada Miguel de Almeida and Joao Pinto Ribeiro They together with several associates known as the Forty Conspirators killed the Secretary of State Miguel de Vasconcelos and imprisoned the king s cousin Margaret of Savoy who had been governing Portugal in his name Philip s troops were then fighting the Thirty Years War and also facing a revolution in the Principality of Catalonia which became known as the Reapers War The support of the people became apparent almost immediately and within a matter of hours Philip III s third cousin John 8th Duke of Braganza was acclaimed as King John IV of Portugal The news spread quickly throughout the country By 2 December 1640 the day after the coup John IV acting in his capacity as sovereign of the country had sent a letter to the Municipal Chamber of Evora The ensuing conflict with Spain brought Portugal into the Thirty Years War as at least a peripheral player From 1641 to 1668 the period during which the two nations were at war Spain sought to isolate Portugal militarily and diplomatically and Portugal tried to find the resources to maintain its independence through political alliances and maintaining its colonial income Preparations for war editImmediately after assuming the Portuguese throne John IV took several steps to strengthen his position On 11 December 1640 a Council of War was created to organize all of the operations Next the king created the Junta of the Frontiers to take care of the fortresses near the border the hypothetical defense of Lisbon and the garrisons and sea ports A year later in December 1641 he created a tenancy to assure that all of the country s fortresses would be upgraded and that the improvements would be financed with regional taxes He also organized the army re established the Military Laws of King Sebastian and undertook a diplomatic campaign focused on restoring good relations with England After gaining several small victories John tried to make peace quickly However his demand that Philip recognize the new ruling dynasty in Portugal was not fulfilled until the reign of his son Afonso VI during the regency of Peter of Braganza another of his sons who later became King Peter II of Portugal Confrontations with Spain lasted 28 years Context relations among the European powers edit nbsp John II Duke of Braganza waged the Restoration War and was acclaimed King John IV Relations between France and Spain edit Cardinal Richelieu the chief adviser to Louis XIII of France was fully aware of the fact that France was operating under strained circumstances Louis was at war with Spain at that time he had to control rebellions within France that were supported and financed by Madrid and had to send French armies to fight the Spanish Habsburgs on three different fronts In addition to their shared frontier at the Pyrenees Philip IV of Spain formerly Philip III of Portugal as well reigned under various titles in Flanders and the Franche Comte to the north and east of France In addition Philip IV controlled large territories in Italy where he could at will impose a fourth front by attacking French controlled Savoy In Savoy Christine Marie of France was acting as regent on behalf of her young son Charles Emmanuel II Duke of Savoy Spain had enjoyed the reputation of having the most formidable military force in Europe with the introduction of the arquebus and the so called Spanish School but that reputation and tactic had diminished with the Thirty Years War Nevertheless the consummate statesman Richelieu decided to force Philip IV to look to his own internal problems To divert the Spanish troops besieging France Louis XIII on the advice of Richelieu supported John s claim during the Acclamation War on the reasoning that a Portuguese war would drain Spanish resources and manpower Relations between Portugal and France edit To fulfill the common foreign policy interests of Portugal and France a treaty of alliance between the two countries was concluded at Paris on 1 June 1641 It lasted eighteen years before Richelieu s successor as unofficial foreign minister Cardinal Mazarin broke the treaty and abandoned his Portuguese and Catalan allies to sign a separate peace with Madrid The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed in 1659 Under its terms France received the portion of the Principality of Catalonia north of the Pyrenees known as the Roussillon and part of the Cerdanya French Cerdagne Most important to the Portuguese the French recognised Philip IV of Spain as the legitimate king of Portugal Seven years later in the late stages of the Portuguese Restoration War relations between the two countries thawed to the extent that the young but sickly Afonso VI of Portugal married a French princess Marie Francoise of Nemours Relations between Portugal and the Dutch Republic edit nbsp Catherine of Braganza Queen Consort of England Scotland and Ireland At the time of the revolution in Lisbon 1 December 1640 the Portuguese had been at war with the Dutch for nearly forty years A good deal of the conflict can be attributed to the fact that Spain and the Dutch Republic were concurrently engaged in the Eighty Years War 1568 1648 and ever since hostilities between Portugal and the Dutch Republic erupted in 1602 Portugal had been ruled by a Spanish monarch The Dutch Portuguese War was fought almost entirely overseas with the Dutch mercantile surrogates the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company repeatedly attacking Portugal s colonial possessions in the Americas in Africa in India and in the Far East Portugal was in a defensive posture throughout and it received very little military help from Spain After the acclamation of John the pattern persisted all over the Portuguese Empire until the final expulsion of the Dutch from Angola 1648 Sao Tome 1649 and Brazil 1654 The Dutch signed a European truce with Portugal helping each other somewhat against their common enemy Spain The Dutch resumed buying salt in the Setubal salt factories restarting commerce between the two countries for the first time since 1580 when the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs against whom the Dutch were in revolt had assumed the Portuguese throne However Dutch attacks on Portuguese territories persisted until 1663 even after the signing of the Treaty of The Hague in 1661 Relations between Portugal and England edit England was then embroiled in its own civil war Portuguese problems in dealing with England arose from the fact that the English Parliament fought and won its anti royalist war while at the same time Portugal s royal court continued to receive and recognize English princes and nobles The strained relations persisted during the short lived Commonwealth period when the republican government that had deposed Charles I ruled England and then Ireland and Scotland After the restoration of the Stuart dynasty it became possible for Portugal to compensate for the lack of French support by renewing its alliance with England with experienced soldiers and officers available from the demobilised New Model Army That took the form of a dynastic marriage between Charles II and Afonso VI s sister Catherine of Braganza which assured Portugal of outside support in its conflict with Spain The English alliance helped peace with Spain which had been drained by the Thirty Years War and had no stomach for further warfare with other European powers especially a resurgent England War editMilitarily the Portuguese Restoration War consisted mainly of border skirmishes and cavalry raids to sack border towns combined with occasional invasions and counter invasions many of them half hearted and under financed There were only five major set piece battles during twenty eight years of hostilities The war may be considered to have had three periods first an early stage 1640 1646 when a few major engagements demonstrated that the Portuguese could not be easily returned to submission to the Spanish Habsburgs second a long period 1646 1660 of military standoffs characterized by small scale raiding while Spain concentrated on its military commitments elsewhere in Europe third a final period 1660 1668 during which the Spanish king Philip IV unsuccessfully sought a decisive victory that would bring an end to hostilities First stage battles edit nbsp Antonio Luis de Meneses Marquis of Marialva led victories at the Lines of Elvas Hoping for a quick victory in Portugal Spain immediately committed seven regiments to the Portuguese frontier but delays by the Count of Monterrey a commander with more interest in the comforts of life at camp than the battlefield squandered any immediate advantage A Portuguese counter thrust in late 1641 failed and the conflict soon settled into a stalemate Battle of Montijo edit On 26 May 1644 a large column of Spanish troops and mercenaries commanded by Neapolitan Carlo Andrea Caracciolo marquis of Torrecuso was stopped at the Battle of Montijo by the Portuguese who were led by the Matias de Albuquerque one of a number of experienced Portuguese colonial officers who rose to prominence during the war Atrocities edit The war now took on a peculiar character It became a frontier confrontation often between local forces neighbours who knew each other well but this familiarity did not moderate the destructive and blood thirsty impulses of either side The wanton nature of the combat was often exacerbated by the use of mercenaries and foreign conscripts incidents of singular cruelty were reported on both sides The Portuguese settled old animosities that had festered during sixty years of Spanish domination and the Spanish often took the view that their opponents were disloyal and rebellious subjects not an opposing army entitled to respectful treatment under the rules of combat Scope of the war edit nbsp Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort of Portugal previously Duchess of Braganza Three theaters of warfare were eventually opened but most activity focused on the northern front near Galicia and on the central frontier between Portuguese Alentejo and Spanish Extremadura The southern front where the Portuguese Algarve abuts Spanish Andalusia was a logical target for Portugal but it was never the focus of a Portuguese attack probably because the Portuguese queen Luisa de Guzman was the sister of the Duke of Medina Sidonia the leading noble of Andalusia Attrition and corruption edit Spain at first made the war a defensive one Portugal for its part felt no need to take Spanish territory in order to win and it too was willing to make the war a defensive contest Campaigns typically consisted of correrias cavalry raids to burn fields sack towns and steal large herds of enemy cattle and sheep Soldiers and officers many of them mercenaries were primarily interested in booty and prone to desertion For long periods without men or money neither side mounted formal campaigns and when actions were taken they were often driven as much by political considerations such as Portugal s need to impress potential allies as by clear military objectives Year after year given the problems of campaigning in the winter and the heat and dry conditions of summer most of the serious fighting was confined to two relatively short campaign seasons in the spring and autumn The war settled into a pattern of mutual destruction As early as December 1641 it was common to hear Spaniards throughout the country lament that Extremadura is finished Tax collectors recruiting officers billeted soldiers and depredations by Spanish and foreign troops were loathed and feared by the Spanish population as much as raids by the enemy In Extremadura local militias bore the brunt of the fighting until 1659 and the absence of these part time soldiers was extremely harmful to agriculture and local finances Since there was often no money to pay or support the troops or to reward their commanders the Spanish crown turned a blind eye to the smuggling contraband profiteering disorder and destruction that had become rampant on the frontier Similar conditions also existed among the Portuguese Second stage defensive standoff edit nbsp John of Austria was instrumental in leading the Habsburg forces The war was also expensive In the 1650s there were over 20 000 Spanish troops in Extremadura alone compared to 27 000 in Flanders Between 1649 and 1654 about 29 percent over six million ducats of Spanish defence spending was appropriated for fighting Portugal a figure that rose during the major campaigns of the 1660s Portugal was able to finance its war effort because of its ability to tax the spice trade with Asia and the sugar trade from Brazil and it received some support from the European opponents of Spain particularly France and England The 1650s were indecisive militarily but important on the political and diplomatic fronts with the brief exception of the Battle of the Lines of Elvas in 1659 The death of John IV in 1656 signalled the beginning of the regency of his wife followed by a succession crisis and a palace coup 1662 Despite these domestic problems the expulsion of the Dutch from Brazil 1654 and the signing of a treaty with England also in 1654 improved Portugal s diplomatic and financial position temporarily and gave it needed protection against a naval raid on Lisbon Nonetheless the overriding goal a formal pact with France continued to evade Portugal whose weakness and isolation had been driven home by its virtual exclusion at the negotiations for the European settlement of settlements the new realpolitik of the Peace of Westphalia 1648 With this treaty and the end of hostilities in Catalonia in 1652 Spain was again ready to direct its efforts against Portugal but it faced a lack of men resources and especially good military commanders Third stage Portuguese victory edit Further information English expedition to Portugal 1662 1668 nbsp Frederico Count of Mertola who was in command of the English contingent brigade in Portugal By 1662 Spain had committed itself to a major effort to end the war John of Austria the Younger Philip IV s illegitimate son led 14 000 men into Alentejo and the following year they succeeded in taking Evora the major city of the region The Portuguese under Antonio Luis de Meneses 1st Marquess of Marialva were bolstered by the arrival of a British brigade which numbered 3 000 in August 1662 Many were veterans of the English Civil War and the Dutch Revolt 8 For King Charles II this was a convenient way of getting rid of demobilized soldiers of Cromwell s New Model Army and removing them from English territory They were led by the German soldier of fortune Friedrich Hermann von Schonberg Count of Mertola The brigade under Schomberg s leadership proved a decisive factor in winning back Portugal s independence 9 They defeated the Spanish in a major engagement at Ameixial on 8 June 1663 and this forced John of Austria to abandon Evora and retreat across the border with heavy losses The Portuguese now had some 30 000 troops in the Alentejo Extremadura theatre but they could not draw the Spanish again into a major engagement until June 1665 when a new Spanish commander the marquis of Caracena took over Vila Vicosa with about 23 000 men including recruits from Germany and Italy The Portuguese relief column under Antonio Luis de Meneses and Schomberg met them at Montes Claros on 17 June 1665 The Portuguese infantry and artillery emplacements broke the Spanish cavalry and the Spanish force lost over 10 000 men including casualties and prisoners Shortly thereafter the Portuguese retook Vila Vicosa These were the last major engagements of the war Both sides returned to skirmishing campaigns Portugal with the intercession of its English ally had sought a truce but after the decisive Portuguese victory at Montes Claros and with the signing of a Franco Portuguese treaty in 1667 the Spanish Habsburgs finally agreed to recognize the House of Braganza as Portugal s new ruling dynasty on 13 February 1668 Recapitulation edit The five major battles of the war were Battle of Montijo on 26 May 1644 Battle of the Lines of Elvas on 14 January 1659 Battle of Ameixial on 8 June 1663 Battle of Castelo Rodrigo on 7 July 1664 Battle of Montes Claros on 17 June 1665 The Portuguese were victorious in almost all of these engagements and peace was concluded with the help of English mediation by the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668 Timeline edit nbsp Margaret of Savoy Vicereine of Portugal Duchess of Mantua nbsp Afonso VI of Portugal s reign was managed by the Count of Castelo Melhor nbsp Philip III amp IV of Portugal and Spain nbsp Prince Regent Pedro Duke of Beja future King Pedro II of Portugal nbsp nbsp The Cross of the Order of Christ and the Cross of Burgundy under white background or varied background colors like quarters in green and white in some Portuguese regiments were the standards more used by the Portuguese and Spanish regiments in the battlefields respectively 10 Main article Timeline of Portuguese history 1640 A small group of conspirators stormed the royal palace in Lisbon and deposed the Vicereine of Portugal Margaret of Savoy on 1 December 1640 She famously tried to calm the Portuguese people during demonstrations in the Terreiro do Paco at the time Lisbon s main square but her efforts failed The Duke of Braganca head of the senior family among the Portuguese nobility accepted the throne as John IV of Portugal later the same day John s entire reign was dominated by the struggle to maintain Portuguese independence 1641 A counter revolution mounted by the Inquisition failed It was quelled by Francisco de Lucena who had its leaders executed Miguel Luis de Menezes 2nd Duke of Caminha was executed for continuing to support the Habsburgs claim to the Portuguese throne 1641 Portugal signed alliances with France 1 June 1641 and Sweden August 1641 1641 Portugal and the Dutch Republic signed a Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance otherwise known as the Treaty of The Hague on 12 July 1641 The treaty was not respected by either party as a consequence it had no effect on the Portuguese dependencies of Brazil and Angola that were under Dutch occupation 1641 The Dutch began their occupation of Sao Tome and of Ano Bom on 16 October 1641 where they remained until 6 January 1649 This was clearly a violation of the agreement made with Portugal only three months earlier 1641 Portugal was ousted from Malacca by the Dutch 1642 The Dutch took over all of the Portuguese Gold Coast now Ghana 1643 At the Battle of Rocroi 19 May 1643 in the Ardennes the French defeated the Spanish 1644 The Battle of Montijo near Badajoz between the Portuguese and the Spanish was fought on 26 May 1644 1644 The Portuguese city of Elvas withstood a nine day siege by Spanish troops 1648 The Sultan of Oman allied with the Dutch captured Muscat which had been a Portuguese trading outpost on the Arabian Peninsula 1648 Portuguese troops from the colony of Brazil under Salvador Correia de Sa landed in Angola retook Luanda and expelled the Dutch thereby restoring the African colony to Portugal 1649 The Dutch were ousted from Sao Tome 1654 The Anglo Portuguese treaty between John IV and Oliver Cromwell was signed at Westminster John agreed to prevent the molestation of English traders in Portugal and its possessions and to allow them to use their own bible and to bury their dead according to Protestant rites even though they were on Catholic soil 1654 Portuguese troops from the colony of Brazil drove the Dutch out of the great plantation colonies of northeastern Brazil re establishing the territorial integrity of Portugal s South American holdings 1656 Portugal lost control of Colombo in Portuguese Ceylon to the Dutch 1656 John IV died on 6 November 1656 after a reign of fifteen years His queen who was born Luisa de Guzman 1613 1666 the eldest daughter of the Spanish grandee the Duke of Medina Sidonia then reigned as regent for their son Afonso VI of Portugal She began seeking an accommodation with Spain 1658 The Dutch took Jaffnapatam Portugal s last colony in Ceylon 1659 The Battle of the Lines of Elvas was fought on 14 January 1659 Portuguese troops under the command of the marquis of Marialva Antonio Luis de Meneses and Sancho Manoel de Vilhena scored a resounding victory over the Spanish 1659 The Spanish besieged the Portuguese town of Moncao The town fell on 7 February 1659 The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed on 7 November 1659 ending Spain s long war with France and Spanish troops were free once more to suppress the Portuguese rebellion The Spaniards besieged Elvas and they were driven off by Antonio Luis de Meneses once again 1660 Upon the restoration of Charles II in England the Queen Regent re negotiated the treaty of 1654 Portugal was allowed to recruit soldiers and horses in England for the fight against Spain to seek the conscription of four thousand mercenaries in Scotland and Ireland and to charter twenty four English ships to carry them The expeditionary force was issued English weapons upon arrival in Portugal and guaranteed freedom of worship 1660 The English began to dominate the trade in port wine from Portugal after a political spat with the French denied them Bordeaux wines Brandy was added to the Portuguese wines to fortify them for the Atlantic voyage Together with the restoration of Charles II in England the port connection had an increasingly positive influence on Anglo Portuguese relations 1661 Bombay and Tangier were ceded to England on 23 June 1661 as a dowry for Afonso s sister Catherine of Braganza who had married King Charles II of England on 25 May 1661 In addition to the deeds to Bombay and Tangier Catherine arrived in London where she popularized the practice of drinking tea with a dowry of two million gold pieces Servicing this wedding debt burdened the Portuguese exchequer for the next half century The marriage with a Protestant monarch was deeply unpopular with those among the Portuguese nobility who favoured alliance with France An anglophile party and a francophile party developed at the Portuguese court 1661 English mediation induced the Netherlands to acknowledge on 6 August 1661 Portuguese rule in Brazil in return for uncontested control of Ceylon and eight million guilders This agreement was formalized in the Treaty of The Hague 1661 1662 Shortly after Afonso VI s coming of age Luis de Vasconcelos e Sousa 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor saw an opportunity to gain power at court by befriending the mentally deficient king He managed to convince the king that his mother Luisa of Medina Sidonia was plotting to steal his throne and exile him from Portugal As a result Afonso asserted his right to rule and dispatched his mother to a convent The king appointed Castelo Melhor his secret notary escrivao da puridade a position in which Castelo Melhor was able to exercise the functions of first minister Because of the weakness of the king Castelo Melhor became the virtual dictator of Portugal 1662 Castelo Melhor commenced the final successful phase of the Portuguese Acclamation War with the aid of the Count of Mertola who brilliantly commanded the international mercenary army that had been assembled with the assistance of England 1663 The Battle of Ameixial was fought on 8 June 1663 After they had spent nearly all spring overrunning the south of Portugal the Spanish army under John of Austria the Younger took the Portuguese city of Evora Less than three weeks later they were soundly defeated by Sancho Manoel de Vilhena and Count of Mertola 1663 The Dutch ousted the Portuguese from the Malabar coast even though this was a clear violation of their 1661 treaty 1663 The Siege of Evora occurred when the Portuguese army led by Sancho Manoel de Vilhena and by the Count of Mertola retook the city from the Spanish occupiers with little to no casualties The entire Spanish garrison surrendered 1664 The Battle of Castelo Rodrigo was fought on 7 July 1664 A regional military commander Pedro Jacques de Magalhaes defeated the Duke of Osuna 1664 The Siege of Valencia de Alcantara results in the successful conquest of the Spanish town of Valencia de Alcantara by Portugal in July 1664 1665 Portugal was again victorious at the Battle of Montes Claros on 17 June 1665 in which Antonio Luis de Meneses and Schomberg defeated the Spanish army under the Marquis of Caracena Spain ceased hostilities but a true peace treaty was not signed for another three years Montes Claros is considered one of the most important battles in Portuguese history 1666 In an attempt to establish an alliance with France Castelo Melhor arranged for Afonso VI to marry Marie Francoise of Nemours the daughter of the Duke of Nemours but this marriage would not last long 1666 The ambitious Castelo Melhor planned to prosecute the war to the extent of taking Galicia and presenting it to the Portuguese crown as a war indemnity but he was dissuaded 1667 Marie Francoise petitioned for an annulment of her marriage to Afonso VI based on the impotence of the king The Church granted her the annulment 1667 King Afonso VI Castelo Melhor and his francophile party were overthrown by the king s younger brother Pedro Duke of Beja who later ruled as Pedro II of Portugal Pedro first installed himself as his brother s regent and then arranged Afonso s exile to the island of Terceira in the Azores on the pretense that he was incapable of governing Castelo Melhor fled into exile ironically he chose to live in England 1667 The French alliance had been imperilled by the annulment of Afonso s marriage but Pedro strengthened his political position by marrying his brother s estranged queen 1668 The Treaty of Lisbon with Spain ended twenty eight years of war The regent of Spain Mariana of Austria acting in the name of her young son Charles II of Spain finally recognized the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch Portugal kept all of its remaining overseas colonies with the exception of Ceuta on the north African coast who didn t recognize the Braganca Dynasty during the war 11 Results of the war edit nbsp Staircase inside the Leal Senado Building in Macau with a plaque in which the city s name title and honours are inscribed For Portugal its restoration of independence from Spain was clearly established and it proved that it could fend for itself albeit with difficulty Its victories on the battlefield had re awakened Portuguese nationalism Economically Portugal s restoration of independence freed it to pursue the course mapped out by the pioneers of commercial imperialism During the seventeenth century its economy depended largely upon entrepot trade in tobacco and sugar and the export of salt During the eighteenth century even though staples were not abandoned the Portuguese economy came to be based more upon enslaved people gold leather and wine Portuguese trade centered in the busy port of Lisbon was most influenced by Anglo Dutch capitalism and by the colonial economy in Brazil 12 Luis de Meneses the Count of Ericeira economic adviser to the prince regent advocated the development of a native textile industry based on a Flemish model Factories were established at Covilha in an area of central Portugal where there was easy access to flocks of sheep and clean mountain water but they were highly unpopular with both local consumers and traditional weavers Meanwhile Portuguese attempts to develop a silk industry were undercut by the French who wanted to monopolize that market More importantly after 1668 Portugal determined to differentiate itself from Spain turned to Western Europe particularly France and England for new ideas and skills This was part of a gradual de Iberianization as Portugal consolidated its cultural and political independence from Spain Portuguese nationalism aroused by success on the battlefield produced hostile reactions to Spain and to Spanish things and persons By this time Portuguese society was composed of two basic elements those who participated in the gradual Europeanization process the political nation and those who remained largely unchanged the majority of the people who remained apolitical and passive 13 Macau the Portuguese colony in the Far East remained loyal to the Portuguese monarch during the entire occupation period Thus it was awarded the title Cidade do Nome de Deus Macau Nao Ha Outra Mais Leal or City by the Name of God Macau There Is None More Loyal by King John IV of Portugal in 1654 14 See also edit1580 Portuguese succession crisis Dutch Portuguese War 1602 1663 History of Portugal 1640 1777 Monument to the Restorers Restauradores SquareNotes edit Treaty of alliance between France and Portugal concluded in Paris June 1 1641 Davenport Frances Gardiner European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies to 1648 Clark New Jersey The Lawbook Exchange Ltd 2012 ISBN 9781584774228 pp 324 328 Glete Jan 2002 Warfare at Sea 1500 1650 Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe E book ed Taylor amp Francis p 176 ISBN 9781134610785 Pinzelli Eric G L 2020 Masters of Warfare Fifty Underrated Military Commanders from Classical Antiquity to the Cold War E book ed Pen and Sword Military p 151 ISBN 9781399070157 Anderson p 131 a b c Torgal Luis Reis 1981 A Restauracao Sua Dinamica Socio politica Ideologia Politica e Teoria do Estado na Restauracao in Portuguese Vol I Coimbra Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra pp 69 85 hdl 10316 665 ISBN 9789726160823 Birmingham p 51 Guerra da Aclamacao Infopedia Retrieved 22 April 2024 Paul Hardacre 1960 The English Contingent in Portugal 1662 1668 Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research volume 38 pp 112 125 Riley p Backcover Bandeiras estandartes e guioes exercito portugues 3 Guerra da Restauracao Blog de Historia Militar dedicado a Guerra da Restauracao ou da Aclamacao 1641 1668 20 April 2008 Glenn Joseph Ames Renascent empire the House of Braganza and the quest for stability in Portuguese monsoon Asia c 1640 1683 p 24 The Making of Modern Europe 1648 1780 Republican Portugal A Political History 1910 1926 by Douglas L Wheeler Step onto Senado Square and into the past Walking tours bring Macau s Chinese Portuguese history in focus South China Morning Post References editAnderson James Maxwell The history of Portugal Greenwood Press 2000 ISBN 0 313 31106 4 Birmingham David A concise history of Portugal 2003 ISBN 978 0 521 53686 8 McMurdo Edward 2010 The History of Portugal From the Reign of D Joao II to the Reign of D Joao V Volume III Volume 3 Read Books Design ISBN 978 1444695694 Riley Jonathon 2014 The Last Ironsides The English Expedition to Portugal 1662 1668 Helion amp Company ISBN 978 1909982208 External links editGuerra da Restauracao Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Portuguese Restoration War amp oldid 1220307746, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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