 This ended when Japan expelled all Portuguese in 1639, and Portuguese Malacca fell to the Dutch in 1641.Being a great victory for the Portuguese in Macau, the battle was commemorated in a number of ways.When the English traveler Peter Mundy arrived in Macau in 1637, he described a children's dance which depicted a "battaille betweene the Portugalls and the Dutch... where the Dutch were overcome, butt withoutt any reproachfull speeche or Disgracefull action to thatt Nation."