Battle of Jambi

Battle of Jambi (1630)
	Part of Dutch–Portuguese War
	; Portuguese galleon fighting Dutch and English warships
Date	April 5th to May 5th, 1630
Location	Jambi river, Indonesia
Result	Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal Portuguese India;	Dutch East India Company; English East India Company
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.^[2] 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.

^ Monteiro, Saturnino (1989). Batalhas e combates da Marinha Portuguesa: 1626-1668 (in Portuguese). Livraria Sá da Costa Editora. ISBN 978-972-562-323-7.
^ Andrada, Ruy Freyre de (2005). Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-34469-2.

[1] Monteiro, Saturnino (1989). Batalhas e combates da Marinha Portuguesa: 1626-1668 (in Portuguese). Livraria Sá da Costa Editora. ISBN 978-972-562-323-7.

[2] Andrada, Ruy Freyre de (2005). Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-34469-2.

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