The Brasilica War, also known as the Sugar War, was a military strategy used in 1630, when the Dutch attacked northeast Brazil in order to settle in the region with an interest in trade. sugar bowl Led by Matias de Albuquerque, the Portuguese-Brazilians, as well as blacks and indigenous people, planned numerous guerrillas against the Dutch and named the place where they met Arraial do Bom Jesus, whose function was as a central support post for the guerrillas carried out until 1654. .
When he realized that the expeditions were failing, Albuquerque used the Slow War strategy since he would not be able to protect the captaincy of Recife for a long time. In 1633, the Afogados fort was overthrown, giving free access to the Dutch. On July 3 of the same year, Albuquerque left together with his troops and the residents of the region who were still there to avoid a violent confrontation of the Portuguese-Brazilian retreat.
In 1635, Spain sent thirty ships to reinforce Dutch security in the conquered territory in case of uprisings. Under the command of Maurício de Nassau, in Pernambuco, the Dutch defeated the natives' pockets of resistance in the conquered region, but only on January 28, 1637 did the political council admit the conquest of Nassau, which established a new regime of government in the region.
It replaced Portuguese councilors with magistrates and subdivided the captaincies into districts, places where the Dutch councils would later settle. During Nassau's government, Brazil was named the Golden Age as peace between Portuguese-Brazilians and the Dutch was established. On May 6, 1644, Nassau left the government, as he was promoted to the highest post of administration, he became the highest authority in the place.
In 1654, there was the War of Restoration, a period in which the Portuguese-Brazilian army managed to reconquer some territories and definitively expelled Dutch rule from Brazil, on January 27.
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