Battle of Jambi (1630) | |||||||
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Part of Dutch–Portuguese War | |||||||
Portuguese galleon fighting Dutch and English warships | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Dutch East India Company English East India Company[1] | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Nuno Álvares Botelho † Rui Freire de Andrade | Unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
27 ships | 28 ships | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1 galliot sunk | 7 ships burned or captured |
The Battle of Jambi in 1630 was a naval engagement between Portuguese, Dutch and English ships in the Indonesian archipelago.[3] Although the Portuguese won this battle, their commander Nuno Álvares Botelho, who is renowned in Portugal as one of the last great commanders of Portuguese India, drowned during the confrontation.