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In 1638, Johan Maurits of Nassau, the Governor of Dutch Caribbean and South American holdings, led an assault on the city of Salvador. Had Salvador, the major Portuguese stronghold in Brazil, fallen, the Dutch would have been securely in possession of northern Brazil, with the takeover of the rest probable before end of the 1640s.

So, now we have an entirely Dutch Brazil. Could Brazilië (Dutch word for Brazil) have attracted enough northern European Protestants to survive? Could it, in conjunction with South Africa, eventually have become and independent nation? Would it have been seized by the British during the Anglo-Dutch Wars? What would, in 1650, the future of Brazilië look like?

P.S. I got (actually, more like stole) this idea from one of Faeelin's posts on SHWI.
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