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Dutch Malacca (1641–1825) was the longest period that Malacca was under foreign control. The Dutch ruled for almost 183 years with intermittent British occupation during the French Revolutionary and later the Napoleonic Wars (1795–1815).
The Dutch captured Melaka from the Portuguese in 1641 giving them control of the region's seas. [ citation needed ] Beginning in 1600, the Dutch came into conflict with the Spanish in the region. Several Dutch fleets invaded the Spanish Philippines , although these did not manage to capture territory there and peace was established in 1648 ...
Eventually, in the year following the death of Thijssen, the Dutch returned Malacca to the British, and formally agreed to recognise Singapore as a British settlement under the terms of Article 12 of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. [4] Whilst Governor of Malacca, Thijssen announced his intention to abolish slavery which had long existed in Malacca.
The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia.The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, which ceded Dutch Malacca, a governorate of the Dutch East Indies that was transferred to Great Britain has consolidated modern-day rule to the Malacca state of Malaysia.
In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded the governorate of Dutch Malacca to Britain, leading to its eventual incorporation into Malacca (state) of modern Malaysia. Part of a series on the History of Malaysia
Dutch Malacca, c. 1750. The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier spent several months in Malacca in 1545, 1546, and 1549. The Dutch launched several attacks on the Portuguese colony during the first four decades of the seventeenth century.
The siege of Malacca (3 August 1640 – 14 January 1641) was initiated by the Dutch East India Company and their local ally, Johor, against Portuguese Malacca. It ended with a Portuguese surrender and, according to Portugal, the deaths of thousands of Portuguese individuals.
The Dutch colony of Malacca was ceded to the British in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 in exchange for the British possession of Bencoolen and for British rights in Sumatra. Malacca's importance was in establishing an exclusive British zone of influence in the region, and was overshadowed as a trading post by Penang, and later, Singapore.