Siege of Salvador (1638)

Siege of Salvador
	Part of the Dutch invasions of Brazil
	; Drawing of the Carmo Gate of the fortified city of Salvador, Bahia (c. 1759)
Date	April – May 1638
Location	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil12°58′S 38°30′W / 12.967°S 38.500°W
Result	Portuguese-Spanish victory
Belligerents
Portugal; Spain	Dutch Republic West India Company;
Commanders and leaders
Giovanni di San Felice; Luís Barbalho	John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen; Johan van der Mast
Strength
1,000	4,600 (3,600 Dutch troops and 1,000 Brazilian auxiliaries) or 6,000; 30 or 45 ships
Casualties and losses
Light	500 killed; 30 captured; Large amount of abandoned military equipment
	Location within Brazil Siege of Salvador (1638) (South America)

The siege of Salvador was a siege that took place between April and May 1638, during the Dutch–Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War. The governor of the Dutch colony in Brazil, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, commanding the army of the Dutch West India Company, with vastly superior forces and a supporting fleet under Johan van der Mast, put the city of Salvador under siege. The Portuguese and Spanish defenders, commanded by Giovanni di San Felice, Count of Bagnolo, and Luís Barbalho, managed to resist the Dutch attacks until they gave up taking the city and withdrew with several casualties.