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@histories_arch · 2026-10-10T19:52:10+00:00

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When the Dutch East India Company (VOC) surrendered Formosa (Taiwan) to the Ming loyalist commander Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) in February 1662 after the Siege of Fort Zeelandia, many Dutch soldiers and officials were permitted to leave for Batavia (Jakarta), but several Dutch

AI visual note: The accompanying post is cut off, so I can only describe what is visible: A line of disheveled, rope-bound European women in torn, soiled peasant dresses is led past armed Asian guards wearing conical hats, with a cannon, a Dutch tricolor flag, a banner reading "鄭成功" (Zheng Chenggong / Koxinga), and a smoking fortress in the background. The image appears to depict captured Dutch civilians during Koxinga's conquest of Formosa, though the caption cannot be completed without the rest of the post.

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