Siege of Fort Zeelandia

Siege of Fort Zeelandia
	Part of the Sino-Dutch conflicts
	; Surrender of Fort Zeelandia in Formosa to the Ming loyalists, 1662 by Johannes van Baden
Date	March 30, 1661 – February 1, 1662
Location	Fort Zeelandia, Tainan, Formosa (modern Taiwan)23°00′06″N 120°09′39″E / 23.00167°N 120.16083°E
Result	Ming loyalists victory
Belligerents
Ming loyalists	Dutch East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Koxinga; Chen Ze	Frederick Coyett; Hans Jurgen Radis; Philip Meij
Strength
25,000, of whom 6,000 advanced on the fort; 400 junks	905 soldiers (Zeelandia); 140 soldiers (Provintia); 3 ships (Zeelandia); 12 ships (relief) with 700 sailors
Casualties and losses
12,500 deserted or dead, mostly from disease, including more than 2,200 killed by natives	1,600 killed or died of disease ; Zeelandia: 1 warship sunk; Relief: 1 warship sunk, 2 ships abandoned, 3 ships captured
	Location within Taiwan

The siege of Fort Zeelandia (Chinese: 熱蘭遮城包圍戰; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Jia̍t-lân-jia Siâⁿ Pau-ûi-chiàn) of 1661–1662 ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over Taiwan and began the Kingdom of Tungning's rule over the island.