Koxinga’s Maritime Resistance and the Capture of Taiwan

Zheng Chenggong, widely known as Koxinga, was a Ming loyalist military commander born in Hirado, Japan. Following the fall of Beijing, he mobilized maritime forces along China's southeastern coast to resist the Qing dynasty. In 1661, he launched a naval expedition to Taiwan, ousted the Dutch East India Company from Fort Zeelandia, and established the Kingdom of Tungning as a base for Ming restoration efforts.

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