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“Daddy Zheng” 鄭芝龍 Beats the Dutch Fleet (1633) - Formosa Files Season Four Finale
Next week we’ll kick off Season Five of Formosa Files! A huge thank you to the Frank C. Chen Foundation for its continued support of the program; without it, this podcast would not exist.In S4 we talked a lot about the 1624-2024 anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch, the new historical novel “A Tale of Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa,” and other Dutch-in-Taiwan-related things, and today we're staying on the topic with a short, informal chat about Koxinga’s father.We’ll cover his incredible story in future episodes, but this is his basic bio, a simple telling of his epic win at the Battle of…
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