Battle of Salt River | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() | ǃUriǁʼaekua | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() | unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~150 | ~170 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
64 | unknown |
The Battle of Salt River was a small[1] military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua "Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate spelling[2]), notable for being the first military encounter between Europeans and indigenous people in what would later become South Africa. The battle resulted in a massacre of Portuguese forces and a victory for the ǃUriǁʼaekua.