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Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides

1602–1688 · 17th century · Also known as Salvador Correia de Sá

Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides was a Portuguese-Brazilian soldier and administrator from a leading Rio de Janeiro family, several times governor of Rio. In 1648 he led a fleet from Brazil that retook Luanda from the Dutch West India Company, restoring Portuguese Angola and the slave trade that supplied Brazil's plantations. He then governed Angola until 1651.

Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides
Image: Feliciano de Almeida (1635-1694) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 3 state histories

Captaincy of Rio de JaneiroPortuguese AngolaDutch Angola

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