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Between two and three in the afternoon on 12 January 1640, Admiral Willem Corneliszoon Loos signalled to the Dutch fleet on the Brazilian coast off Paraíba to attack the Luso-Spanish armada dispatched by King Philip IV to recapture Pernambuco.1 Thus started the first of the four confrontations between 12 and 17 January that became known as the 1640 Naval Battle of Paraíba. On both sides, the numbers of ships and men involved were considerable. The armada under Fernando Mascarenhas, Count of Torr
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