Although the fleet failed to overrun Pernambuco, supplies and 2,500 Spanish, Portuguese, and Neapolitan reinforcements were successfully landed at the Lagunas under General Luis de Rojas.

[7] The Dutch vessels in the area were driven off and de Hoces spent some months escorting a sugar convoy to the Spanish Main and preparing a counter-invasion of the Dutch-held island of Curaçao which was finally abandoned because the siege train was lost in a wreck.

[11] Mascarenhas, ignoring his orders for an immediate assault upon Recife, spent about a year in the town before he set sail again, which was done in January 1640 with the intention to land 1,200 soldiers under Luís Barbalho Bezerra to reinforce the Portuguese guerrillas surrounding the Dutch garrison of Pernambuco.

António da Cunha Andrade was captured, and another Spanish vessel of the Squadron of Castile ran aground and was boarded while fighting the Dutch Zwaan.

[16] Mascarenhas' ship was damaged, after which the Dutch fleet abandoned the pursuit and the Spanish-Portuguese vessels could land the army at Cape São Roque, too far to threaten Recife.

[17] The Dutch garrison of Recife was increased in March 1640 by 2,500 soldiers carried aboard 28 ships under Admirals Cornelis Jol and Jan Lichthart, who was in charge of naval operations to disrupt the Portuguese sugar trade.

[18] Recife served as a base for an expedition under Jol and Lichthart, in 1641, to seize Portugal's slaving depots in Angola before any treaty could be concluded in Europe,[18] and despite a ten-year truce between both countries that was signed on 12 June, the hostilities continued, resulting in the expulsion of the Dutch from Brazil in 1654.