Koxinga

Aug 27, 1624 - Jun 23, 1662

Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping, better known internationally as Koxinga or Cheng Ch'eng-kung, was a Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast.
In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty, the House of Koxinga, which ruled part of the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683.
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