Reapers' War

The Reapers' War (1608-1616) (Guerra dels Segadors, Guerra dos Segadores) pitted the colonies and their respective settlers of Portuguese Balisca against those of Aranese Balisca, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Indigenous allies. The War was foreshadowed by open conflict between the Portuguese settlers and their former Indigenous allies. At the start of the war, the Aranese colonies had a population of roughly 800,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the Portuguese colonies. The outnumbered Aranese in particular heavily depended on their new indigenous allies, who had earlier sided against them in Arriola's conflict with Portugal.