Koxinga Expels the Dutch from Taiwan

1661

The Ming loyalist warlord Zheng Chenggong, known to Europeans as Koxinga, besieged the Dutch fortress of Zeelandia on the west coast of Taiwan for nine months and drove the VOC from the island. He established a Chinese kingdom there that held out against the Qing until 1683, the last remnant of Ming resistance in an empire that had already fallen.