Battle of Mbwila
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At the <entity_3> (or Battle of <entity_7> or Battle of Mbuila or Battle of Ulanga) on <entity_4>, <entity_5> forces defeated the forces of the <entity_2> and decapitated king <entity_1>, also called Nvita a Nkanga. Although Kongo and <entity_6> had been trading partners and participated in a cultural exchange during the sixteenth century, the establishment of the <entity_5> colony of <entity_10> in 1575 put pressure on that relationship. Kongo initially assisted <entity_6> in <entity_10>, sending an army to rescue the <entity_5> governor Paulo Dias de Novais when his war against the nearby African kingdom of Ndongo failed in 1579. But subsequently as <entity_6> became stronger it began to press harder, and in 1622 severed even the cautiously friendly relationship of the earlier period when a large <entity_5> army invaded southern Kongo and defeated the local forces at the Battle of Mbumbi. He then wrote to the Dutch Estates General, proposing an alliance with the Dutch to drive the <entity_5> out of <entity_10> altogether. In 1665, one of these small kingdoms, <entity_8>, underwent a succession struggle and the various factions appealed to Kongo and <entity_10> for aid. The core of the <entity_5> force, commanded by <entity_0>, was 450 musketeers and two light artillery pieces. In the initial stages of the <entity_9>, the Kongolese archers swept most of the African archers of the <entity_5> forces from the field and then launched attacks against the <entity_5> musketeers, supported by their own heavy infantry and musketeers. After the <entity_9>, the head of the king or Manikongo was buried with ceremony by the <entity_5> in the chapel of Our Lady of Nazareth situated on the Bay of Luanda, and the crown and sceptre of Kongo were sent to Lisbon as trophies. <entity_6> obtained an act of vassalage from D. Isabel, the regent of <entity_8>, but was unable to exercise any real authority over the region once their forces had withdrawn.
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