Antonius Hambroek
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Antonius Hambroek was a Dutch Reformed missionary to Formosa from 1648 to 1661, during the Dutch colonial era. He was executed by Koxinga as the Chinese warlord wrested Formosa from the Dutch during t
Hambroek Front
Antonius Hambroek takes leave of his daughters before being sent away, historical painting by Jan Willem Pieneman in 1810
Siege of Fort Zeelandia
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The siege of Fort Zeelandia of 1661–1662 ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over Taiwan and began the Kingdom of Tungning's rule over the island.
Antonius Hambroek
…Formosa from 1648 to 1661, during the Dutch colonial era. He was executed by Koxinga as the Chinese warlord wrested Formosa from the Dutch during the Siege of Fort Zeelandia. Born in Rotterdam in 1607, Hambroeck studied at the University of Leiden in 1624, where he would met his future wife Anna Vincenten Moij. After his…
Surrender of Fort Zeelandia in Formosa to the Ming loyalists, 1662 by Johannes van Baden
One of Koxinga's armored soldiers.
A Ming junk, 1637.
Surrender of Fort Zeelandia