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CADORNEGA (António de Oliveira de). HISTÓRIA Geral das Guerras Angolanas 1680. Lisboa. 1972. - CADORNEGA (António de Oliveira de) HISTÓRIA Geral das Guerras Angolanas 1680 . Anotado e corrigido por José Matias Delgado. Lisboa: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1972. 3 v.; 220 mm. A facsimile reprint, in three volumes, of the 1940-1942 edition, annotated and corrected by José Matias Delgado, of the General History of the Angolan Wars , written by António de Oliveira de Cadornega and completed in 1681, but which remained unpublished for more than two hundred and fifty years. An eyewitness to the Portuguese presence in Angola since the mid-17th century, having witnessed the Dutch assault on Luanda in 1641, Cadornega narrates, with great detail, the Portuguese military campaigns against the Dutch and against the various indigenous peoples, and also describes, in the third part of the work, the city of Luanda, its fortresses, institutions and surrounding territory, including ethnographic, geographical and linguistic data of great value about the Angolan populations. A fundamental primary source, and very rare in this complete reprint, for the history of Portuguese expansion and administration in Angola in the 17th century. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate