Capture of Bahia

Belligerents

Dutch Republic

• WIC

PortugalCommanders and leaders

• Jacob Willekens
• Pieter Heyn
• Johan van Dorth

Mendonça FurtadoStrength 6,500 3,000Casualties and losses 50 killed or wounded Unknown

The capture of Salvador was a military engagement between Portugal (at that time, united with Spain in the Iberian Union) and the Dutch West India Company, that occurred in 1624, and ended in the capture of the Brazilian city of Salvador by the latter. This capture was part of the Groot Desseyn plan of the Dutch West India Company. Although the Dutch intentions were reported to the Spanish, no preventive counter-action was taken until the Recapture of Bahia in 1625.