Siege of Fort Zeelandia
Videos
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.
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
Dutch Formosa
Videos
The island of Taiwan, also commonly known as Formosa, was partly under colonial rule by the Dutch Republic from 1624 to 1662. In the context of the Age of Discovery, the Dutch East India Company estab
Siege of Fort Zeelandia
…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. From 1623 to 1624, the Dutch had been at war with Ming China over the Pescadores…
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC).
Capture of Pieter Nuyts
Peace Treaty of 1662, between Governor Coyett and Koxinga
Formosan sika deer