Palmares resisted Portuguese and Dutch assaults for nearly a century

Evidence

For almost a century, neither the Portuguese nor the interloper Dutch, nor the Creole moradores could destroy it, though they tried for more than seventy years. Even in the end, “[b]etween 1672–94,” R. K. Kent tells us, “[i]t withstood on the average one Portuguese expedition every fifteen months.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 664