Recapture of Fort Zeelandia (1667)
The Recapture of Fort Zeelandia or the Seizure of Fort Zeelandia was a minor military action on 13 October 1667 at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in which an English force under command of Rear Admiral Sir John Harman assaulted and took by force the Dutch settlement and fortress of Zeelandia under Maurits de Rame. The English occupied the area but only for a short while as news of the peace of Breda arrived. The Dutch had captured the Zeelandia earlier in the year, and the English recapture was the last battle before the war's end between England and the Dutch Republic.
Fort Zeelandia in 1997
Admiral Sir John Harman was an English officer of the Royal Navy, who served first under the Commonwealth, then Charles II following the 1660 Stuart Restoration.
Sir John Harman, c. 1668
Action between ships in the First Dutch War by Abraham Willaerts
Battle of Lowestoft, 3 June 1665, showing HMS Royal Charles and the Eendracht by Hendrik van Minderhout
St. James Day Battle