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 Portuguese Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração) 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]

  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.). 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

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