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| rdfs:label | - Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa
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| rdfs:comment | - After receiving reinforcements from the colonial headquarters at Batavia, the Dutch launched an attack in 1635 and were able to crush opposition and bring the area around present-day Tainan fully under their control. After seeing Mattau and Soulang, the most powerful villages in the area, defeated so comprehensively, many other villages in the surrounding area came to the Dutch to seek peace and surrender sovereignty to the Europeans. Thus the Dutch were able to dramatically expand the extent of their territorial control in a short space of time, and avoid the need for further fighting. The end of the campaign came in February 1636, when representatives from twenty-eight villages attended a ceremony in Tayouan to cement Dutch sovereignty.
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| map caption | - Location of Mattau, the most important
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| Casualties | - Mattau and Taccariang destroyed by fire
- c. 30 killed
- exact numbers unknown, casualties slight
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| Result | - Decisive Dutch victory, increased Dutch area of control
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| combatant | - 20
- Natives of Mattau, Bakloan, Soulang, Taccariang and Tevorang
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| Conflict | - Dutch Pacification Campaign on Formosa
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| Quote | - Terms of the peace treaty between the VOC and Mattau
#That all the relics which they still possessed, be it of beads or garments should be restored to us.
#That they were to pay a certain contribution in pigs and paddy.
#That every second year they should bring two pigs to the Castle on the anniversary day of the murder.
#That they should give us the sovereignty over their country, and as a symbol thereof place at the feet of the Governor some little pinang and cocoa trees, planted in the earthen vessels in the soil of their country.
#That they should promise never again to turn their arms against us.
#That they should no longer molest the Chinese.
#That, in case we had to wage war against other villages, they should join us.
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| abstract | - After receiving reinforcements from the colonial headquarters at Batavia, the Dutch launched an attack in 1635 and were able to crush opposition and bring the area around present-day Tainan fully under their control. After seeing Mattau and Soulang, the most powerful villages in the area, defeated so comprehensively, many other villages in the surrounding area came to the Dutch to seek peace and surrender sovereignty to the Europeans. Thus the Dutch were able to dramatically expand the extent of their territorial control in a short space of time, and avoid the need for further fighting. The end of the campaign came in February 1636, when representatives from twenty-eight villages attended a ceremony in Tayouan to cement Dutch sovereignty. Solidifying the southwest under their rule, the Dutch were able to expand their operations from the limited entrepôt trading carried out by the colony prior to 1635. The expanded territory allowed access to the deer trade, which later became very lucrative, and guaranteed security in food supplies. It provided fertile land, which the Dutch used imported Chinese labour to farm. The aboriginal villages also provided warriors to aid the Dutch in times of trouble, notably in the Lamey Island Massacre of 1636, the Dutch defeat of the Spanish in 1642 and the Guo Huaiyi Rebellion in 1652. The allied villages also provided opportunities for the Dutch missionaries to spread their faith. The pacification campaign is considered the foundation stone on which the later success of the colony was built.
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