The surrender of Fort Zeelandia on Formosa in 1662, from an engraving by Jan van Baden published in 1675.Image: Jan van Baden · Public domainKoxinga drives the Dutch from Taiwan
The Dutch East India Company had ruled part of Taiwan, which Europeans called Formosa, from its stronghold of Fort Zeelandia since the 1620s. Zheng Chenggong, known in the West as Koxinga, was a Chinese commander fighting to restore the fallen Ming dynasty against the new Qing rulers of China, and he needed a secure base. In April 1661 he landed on Taiwan with a force of more than 25,000 men and laid siege to the fort. After nine months, with its garrison worn down by hunger and disease and no relief arriving from Batavia, Fort Zeelandia surrendered on 1 February 1662 on generous terms, and the Dutch sailed away. Koxinga died a few months later, but his family ruled Taiwan until 1683, and he is honoured as a hero on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Zheng Chenggong ↗
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