Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)
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Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company, in the town of Anping on Formosa, the former name of central island of Taiwan, during their 38-yea
Wall of Fort Zeelandia
17th century watercolor of Fort Zeelandia
Stone monument marking "Anping Old Castle" (Fort Zeelandia)
Bust of Koxinga in Fort Zeelandia Museum
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
Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)
…the fort and led the remaining Dutch forces and civilians back to Batavia by sea, ending 38 years of Dutch colonial rule. After the siege, Koxinga took Antonius Hambroek's teenage daughter as a concubine. Other Dutch (or part Dutch) women were sold to Chinese soldiers to become their concubines. Fort Zeelandia included…
Hambroek Front
Antonius Hambroek takes leave of his daughters before being sent away, historical painting by Jan Willem Pieneman in 1810