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From 1680 to 1694, the Portuguese and Zumbi, now the new king of Angola Janga, waged an almost constant war of greater or lesser violence.

The Portuguese government finally brought in the famed Portuguese military commanders Domingos Jorge Velho and Bernardo Vieira de Melo, who had made their reputation fighting Native American peoples in São Paulo and then in the São Francisco valley.

The final assault against Palmares occurred in January 1694.

Cerca do Macaco, the main settlement, fell ; and Zumbi was wounded.

He eluded the Portuguese, but was betrayed, finally captured, and beheaded on November 20, 1695.