India/Netherlands/Portugal: The capture of Kochi (Cochin) and victory of the over the Portuguese in 1663. Copper engraving by C. Decker for the Atlas van der Hem, 1682. The Dutch-Portuguese War was an armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company, against Phillip II of Spain the nominally King of Spain and Portugal possessions, even the Portuguese Empire. Beginning in 1602, the conflict primarily involved the Dutch companies invading mostly Portuguese colonies in the Americas, Africa, India and the Far East.

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