300px|thumb|right|Mauritsstad in 1645, colored copperplate engraving, heightened with gold by Johan van Brosterhuysen, after a design by [[Frans Post.]] thumb|right|Watercolour chart of the cities of Mauritsstad and Recife in the 17th century. Mauritsstad (or Mauritius) was the capital of Dutch Brazil, and is now a part of the Brazilian city of Recife.
300px|thumb|right|Mauritsstad in 1645, colored copperplate engraving, heightened with gold by Johan van Brosterhuysen, after a design by [[Frans Post.]] thumb|right|Watercolour chart of the cities of Mauritsstad and Recife in the 17th century. Mauritsstad (or Mauritius) was the capital of Dutch Brazil, and is now a part of the Brazilian city of Recife.
==History== A Dutch fleet of 65 ships led by Hendrick Corneliszoon Loncq led a siege against Portuguese Brazil in 1630. The Dutch West India Company gained control of Olinda by 16 February 1630, and both Recife and the island of António Vaz (opposite Recife) by 3 March 1630.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).