Bumbe

Bumbe lies in the southern country of the kingdom of Kongo, between the capital and the lands contested with Portuguese Angola. In 1622 a Portuguese force and its Jaga allies defeated an army raised from Kongo's provinces here. The battle was part of a wider struggle over the kingdom's southern territories and the routes toward Luanda. Kongo mobilized further forces, and the war did not end with the victory at Bumbe.