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Ep. 311 | The History of Taiwan (Part 2)
The China History Podcast
Zhengchang Gong's Battle of Formosa
The Dutch were always fending off attacks from these native people who didn't like that they were squatting on their land. VOC taxation of those Chinese and native people was an issue that had led to an uprising in September 1652. Zhengchang Gong's fleet assembled in Chinmen just off the shaman coast. About 25,000 soldiers on board hundreds of vessels big and small,. all headed in the direction of Fort Zillandia with a stop in Punghu. These numbers vastly outnumbered with the Dutch head. Although they fought bravely, the Dutch officers surely knew they weren't going to defeat the Chinese who had home-field advantage or powerful weapons besides the Bos
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