The Spanish expedition to Formosa was a campaign mounted by the Spanish based in Manila, Philippines in 1626. It was the Spanish response to Dutch settlements...

Spanish Formosa (Spanish: Gobernación de Hermosa española) was a small colony of the Spanish Empire established in the northern tip of the island now known...

presence on Formosa to trade with the Ming Empire in neighbouring China and Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and also to interdict Portuguese and Spanish trade...

Taiwanese aborigine. The Spanish expedition to Formosa in the early 17th century was its first contact with the West; by 1624 the Spanish had built San Salvador...

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Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, Columbia University Press Andrade, Tonio (2008h), "Chapter 8: "The Only Bees on Formosa That...

expedition launched by the Dutch and their aboriginal allies in Taiwan against the Spanish in 1641. As Chinese merchants brought news of the Spanish withdrawal...

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fortified Spanish settlement and its aboriginal allies in northern Formosa 1642. After six days, the battle ended in defeat for the Spanish. The Spanish defeat...

1874 Japanese expedition against Formosa.[further explanation needed] Benin Expedition of 1897 was a British punitive action that led to the annexation...

to Formosa. The death of Koxinga occurred before his expedition reached the Philippines." Koxinga's threat to Spain effectively destroyed the Spanish...

came from Fokien to barter with the Formosa natives." On a night in 1636, a group of local people, angered by the taxes that the Spanish governor had imposed...

Formosa was a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty of China to the...

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Ocean, Touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an Account of the French Settlement He Was Appointed to Form upon the Island of Madagascar"...

The Spanish East Indies (Spanish: Indias orientales españolas) were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed...

heathens to be converted, neighbors and service suppliers." In 1641, governor of Dutch Formosa Paulus Traudenius launched an expedition on the Spanish settlement...

Portuguese expeditions. Spanish Formosa was established in Taiwan, first by Portugal in 1544 and later renamed and repositioned by Spain in Keelung....

exploration in a similar way that Cuba had done for the Spanish in the Americas. Occupying Formosa could help the United States counter European monopolization...

to the Spanish fort 's-Hertogenbosch. June 17 – Anglo-Spanish War (1625): A Spanish expedition led by Fadrique de Toledo Battle of St. Kitts (1629) destroy...

century. Named Formosa by Portuguese explorers, the south of the island was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century whilst the Spanish built a settlement...

back to mainland China where they spent the rest of their lives. Taiwan portal History portal Pedro Yan Shiqi Kingdom of Middag Spanish Formosa Taiwan...

When Spain entered the war, Britain also went on the offensive in the Caribbean, planning an expedition against Spanish Nicaragua. A British attempt to gain...

Additional Asian colonies included "Spanish Formosa", on the island now known as Taiwan. After the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, conqueror...

was in command of a naval squadron sent to Formosa (Taiwan) to resupply the Spanish fort there and to attempt to dislodge the Dutch from their fort on the...

known as Formosa; and, in 1642 the Dutch took northern Formosa from the Spanish by force.[citation needed] The Dutch tried to use military force to make Ming...

The Sino-Spanish conflicts were a series of conflicts between the Spanish Empire and the Qing Dynasty between the 16th and 18th centuries over control...

requesting an expedition to dislodge the Spanish from their strongholds in Tamsuy and Kelang. In his letter he stressed the potential for the Spanish to interfere...

are to the Ryukyus, Taiwan or even Luzon. The name Formosa (福爾摩沙) dates from 1542, when Portuguese sailors noted it on their maps as Ilha Formosa (Portuguese...

and Portuguese allied to the Ternateans, they aided the Spanish in the conquest of Muslim Manila and in the Spanish expeditions to capture Portuguese Ternate...