The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files
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S1-E2 - Koxinga VS. The Dutch - Round One

The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files

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The Siege of Kashinka

The Dutch had three ships, as I recall, and they sent these out right away. Their main ship explodes. A ship called the Hector. Have you ever read the illiad? No, I can't say that I have, but I have seen the movie. The movie Troy with Brad Pitt. Yeah. Hector is not a good name for a siege. He is killed by Achilles quite mercilessly in the story. Okay, so this Hector, the ship, explodes, not by anything that Chinese did, but the cannon on the ship set off the gunpowder, stored on the ship. Massive, massive explosion, one survivor. They go for a deeper waters. One favorite stain

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