Battle of Imbituba
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| Battle of Imbituba | |||||||
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| Part of the Ragamuffin War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Juliana Republic |
 Empire of Brazil | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Giuseppe Garibaldi Teixeira Nunes | Francisco Romano da Silva | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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200 men |
2 pataches | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 schooner sunk[1] | 1 schooner damaged[3] | ||||||
The Battle of Imbituba was a naval battle between the rebel Juliana Republic and the Empire of Brazil during the Ragamuffin War, taking place on 4 November 1839 in Imbituba in Santa Catarina. The rebel flotilla was forced to withdraw by the superior Imperial flotilla, setting one of its own ships on fire and leaving while the Imperials were distracted.
The Ragamuffin War had been going on since 1835 and the recently created Juliana Republic was being attacked by superior forces from the Empire of Brazil. The Republic controlled a relatively small area around the city of Laguna, its capital, and had a small fleet.[4]
Giuseppe Garibaldi, sailing back from a raiding expedition in São Paulo's coast, was met first by the Imperial patache Andorinha, which managed to recapture two of the ships the expedition had seized, and then by two others, the patache Patagônia and the schooner Bela Americana; this fleet, under Francisco Romano da Silva, made the flotilla from the Juliana Republic fight them at Imbituba. The Republicans also had the aid of 200 riflemen on land.[1]