In 1585, a large, punitive force was assembled to punish the Makua of Mozambique for their repeated attacks after the ascendance of a Chief Mauruça to power. The Makua were a large tribe stretching from the Zambesi to the very northern part of modern-day Mozambique, now consisting of 3.5 million people. The tribe was noted by the Portuguese for its "primitivity," its men and women wearing miniscule amounts of cloth, women sometimes seen wearing nothing more than a leaf shawl covering their privy parts. Nevertheless, they were fierce, skilled, and regular raiders who terrorized Portuguese settlements, likely thanks to the latter's seizure of their people. The expedition was launched with the help of numerous African auxiliaries who worked under the Portuguese, which formed a large portion of the force. Portuguese regulars made up the remainder. The army proceeded normally. Armed to the teeth with guns and top of the line equipment, they managed to successfully infiltrate the "capital" of the Makua after advancing around 50 kilometers inland with little resistance, burning the whole village to the ground. The main force of the fierce Makua, however, were absolutely nowhere to be seen. Ignoring this glaring absence, the force of 700 troops under the crown would be relentlessly ambushed as they attempted to return to their territory on the coast. The entire force was wiped out including the commander, and only two soldiers and some slaves would manage to, miraculously, see the light of day after numerous Makua descended from the jungle. The battle was considered the second worst defeat for the Portuguese in the century, after the disaster at Alcácer Quibir against the Saadi. This battle is an example of the myth of the "disease barrier." The force remained at near-full combat capacity for practically all of its existence. Its destruction was entirely at the hands of African Makua, who skillfully mastered the terrain to inflict a great defeat for the Portuguese.
The portugese ended up ruling the area for centuries tho
>>18465053>browns really be like "15 White guys got lost and we ate them" then hold this up as if it were on the level of Waterloo or Thermopylae"see see my unique irrelevant shithole race has value"no it doesnt, youre not even a footnote of history, you dont even have history.Where is your Napoleon? Where is your British Empire? Where is your Mycenaea?
>>18465053That spear resemble Japanese yari.
>>18465053>By 1585 the situation had become intolerable for the Portuguese and a major surprise attack was launched against the Mauruça’s main settlement, which was said to lie some fifteen to twenty-five kilometers inland. The column of almost four hundred men, a tenth of whom were Portuguese, marched from the coast during the fight and attacked at dawn, catching the Makua completely off guard. Many were killed by the Portuguese and the entire settlement set afire.Nice retelling of history faggot
>>18466470>>18466468>>18466466>>18466428>>18465583Fuck off jamjeet
It's interesting how much Portuguese power waxed and waned during its imperial period, a lot of places they held only briefly or lost to local powers but some kind of empire survived.Both the Dutch and Omani Empires were built largely from taking their colonies. The Rozvi caused them a lot of trouble in Zambezia over a century after this battle, too, though the Makua in particular (despite this victory) wound up getting wrecked.
When the warriors of the Mauruça began to wreak havoc on the mainland opposite Mozambique Island in the early 1580s their shock tactics consisted of raids marked by looting and sacking. According to Couto, a stockade was built some ten kilometers or more inland from the coast as a base for the invaders’ operations in this region. By 1585 the situation had become intolerable for the Portuguese and a major surprise attack was launched against the Mauruça’s main settlement, which was said to lie some fifteen to twenty-five kilometers inland. The column of almost four hundred men,>a tenth of whom were Portuguese,marched from the coast during the fight and attacked at dawn, catching the Makua completely off guard. Many were killed by the Portuguese and the entire settlement set afire. Those who escaped the Portuguese assault, however, withdrew in some order to the bush through which the main route back to the coast ran and virtually decimated the entire Portuguese column on its return march. Santos attributes the major blame for this disaster to Portuguese overconfidence “and the contempt with which they look upon the Kaffirs.”13 But it did not escape Santos that the Makua ambush was a well-organized tactic. It seems likely that they were prepared in advance to respond positively to this sort of surprise attack. Further raids by the Makua were before long abandoned in favor of a mutually beneficial modus vivendi with the Portuguese and a peace in which the Mauruça was recognized as the dominant local authority on the mainland, though he was just as clearly subordinate to Maravi hegemony.
>>18465583>>18466549You forgot to add that literally the entire force was wiped out after that. The Makua may have taken casualties but it was negligible to literally the entire Portuguese force, with top of the line weapons, being torn to ribbons.
>>1846659970 men, a militia of settlers and sailors, against a massive tribe, with matchlock muskets in a wet jungle, and despite the sacrifice they still managed to inflict casualties and secure victory. Portugal would hold the territory until socialists stabbed them in the back, in the end it wasn't Africa that liberated itself it was other white people. Even with independence the country is still a corrupt wartorn shithole, not the wakanda imagined.Doesn't look good blackbros.. White men are truly the master race and maybe it's time we just admit that and return to the colonial fold.
>>18466637Nope. The 1585 war was in the clearest way a humiliating defeat, the Makua remained a threat for centuries afterwards, and the Portuguese "territories" in Mozambique were very poorly administrated, insecure and subject to regularly successful raids by African tribes. As late as the 18th and 19th centuries, the Makua would attack their settlements, rout Portuguese troops and capture settlers as prisoners. They would only be fully subdued (thanks to the use of other Africans) many decades later. The situation prior to that could be considered a stalemate for the Portuguese at best, not the complete domination you're framing it as. Nevertheless it is retarded to deny the African role in forcing Portugal to give up its colonies. Why do you think the conditions for the revolt to succeed were in place anyway? The war, waged by Africans was draining Portugal of money and Portuguese soldiers of their lives.The Portuguese, in general, were among the most incompetent colonists in Africa.
>>18466685Most incompetent despite being the longest lasting European presence in Africa? Mozambique today speaks Portuguese and is mostly Christian. You sound like a butthurt jeet clamoring about a "victory" where a bunch of blacks got killed and their village burned despite "winning" 500 years ago
>>18466731The incompetence is their endless failures to achieve their goals until much later, (which was only partial) routinely suffering horrific defeats in battles against tribes and being one of the few European countries to be permanently expelled from a region by Africans. In most of their colonies they were trapped on the coast surrounded by enemies who were often their equals in battle and could only successfully venture further inland at the very end of the 19th century.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kitombo
>>18466782None of what you said is exclusive to Portugal. The Brits lost battles against Zulu spear chuckers. The Italians lost against stone age people despite having modern weapons. Name any other European power successfuly penetrating Africa's hinterlands in the 1500's.Again, you're just a butthurt jeet
>>18466823>The Italians lost against stone age people despite having modern weaponsWhen did that happen?
>>18466829I believe they might be telling a butchered story about how the Portuguese lost a skirmish against the Khoekhoe.
>>18466823>The Italians lost against stone age people despite having modern weapons.If you're talking about the first Italo-Ethiopian war, then calling them Stone Age is a complete misreading of the situation, considering the Ethiopians were supplied with superior weapons by other European powers like the Russians.
>>18465426Portuguese "rule" in Africa was pathetic, they were the sorriest excuse for colonial overlords ever, they rarely went far inland beyond the coastal areas, hence getting completely cucked by the UK with the Pink Map embarrassment. They were basically the senile grandpa of colonialism.
>>18466637Guinea-Bissau rebels fought Portuguese to a standstill in the colonial war and Portugal was unable to militarily crush them, before the Carnation revolution.
>>18466468Over a hundred portuguese sailors and their officers, armored and equipped with guns, get punked by naked South African savages speaking in clicks, who massacre them with stones, wooden spears and "poisoned" arrows, using fucking BATTLE COWS as meatshields against their bullets.Among the dead were Francisco de Almeida, the Viceroy of India.
>>18466880During the Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau, particularly, before 1916 they didn't have control over even half of the colony. Just a few ports. They were constantly beaten back and fought to a standstill by the tribal warriors there, most notably in 1891 where 120 troops and several commanders were slaughtered within less than two months, and 1878 where a similar event happened in one day.
>>18467074They were just meme guerrillas hiding out in the jungle, more like banditos than an army. The Portuguese could have held out forever with minimal casualties while inflicting horrendous casualties on the enemy should they ever emerge from the bush. They could have Portuguese could have easily conducted a genocide of the local population to root them out, but they thought "nah" because they were cool like that, benevolent colonial masters as they were. But, you know, it wouldn't have been so bad if they did then invited Mennonites to cultivate the land instead. National IQ, standards of living and GDP would be objectively higher today. They would be living lives worth of life unlike the current situation.Alas, wypipo decided to be pussy cucked socialists for no reason whatsoever around the late 1960s early 1970s.
