Pieter Nuyts
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Pieter Nuyts or Nuijts was a Dutch explorer, diplomat and politician.
Japanese art possibly featuring Pieter Nuyts in Taiwan in 1629
The sixteenth-century city hall of Middelburg in 2005
Fort Zeelandia, the governor's residence in Formosa
Capture of Pieter Nuyts (upper right corner) by the Japanese
A series of military actions and diplomatic moves were undertaken in 1635 and 1636 by the United East India Company in Dutch-era Taiwan aimed at subduing hostile aboriginal villages in the southwester
Pieter Nuyts
…sixty off-guard Dutch soldiers – Nuyts was spared by having left early to return to Zeelandia. This incident was later used as a justification for the Pacification Campaign of 1635–1636. It was during Nuyts's tenure as governor that the Spanish established their presence on Formosa in 1629. He was greatly concerned by this…
Robert Junius, one of the leaders of the Mattau expedition
A landdag meeting between the Dutch and Formosans