Operations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
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Were the military operations of the Dutch in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
Chronology
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January 1641: The Siege of Malacca of 1641, after many attempts, delivered the city to the Dutch and their regional allies, crucially breaking the spinal cord between Goa and the Orient.
January 1606: Amboina was captured by the Portuguese.
January 1657: The Dutch, led by Admiral Gerard Pietersz Hulft, were able to capture Colombo in 1656 from the Portuguese, establishing Dutch control over the territory of Dutch Ceylon.
January 1664: The Dutch settled in the Malabar coast in 1663.
January 1622: The Battle of Hormuz in 1621/2 against the English East India Company resulted in the loss of the fortress of Hormuz to the combined forces of Persia and England which dislodged the Portuguese from the Middle East.
May 1638: Dutch Admiral Adam Westerwolt (1580-1639) conquered the Portuguese fort at Batticaloa on Ceylon.
January 1640: The 1639 expulsion of the Jesuit order (Sakoku) and subsequently the Portuguese, from Nagasaki, also doomed the economic viability of Macau.
September 1642: Battle of San Salvador: a military assault launched by the Dutch on a small fortified Spanish settlement and its aboriginal allies in northern Formosa in 1642. After six days, the battle ended in defeat for the Spanish. The Spanish defeat secured full control of the island for the Dutch.
January 1625: The Dutch established a colony at Tayouan in 1624, present-day Anping in the south of Taiwan.
March 1640: Galle conquered by netherlands.
