Recapture of Fort Zeelandia (1667)

Recapture of Fort Zeelandia (1667)
Part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
Fort Zeelandia in 1997
Date 13 October 1667. Location Fort Zeelandia (present day Paramaribo) Suriname Result English victory[1]
Belligerents
Dutch Republic	England
Commanders and leaders
Maurits de Rame	Rear Admiral John Harman
Strength
300 men[2]	9 ships 800 sailors and troops[3]
Casualties and losses
50 casualties 250 captured All stores captured[2]	Light

The Recapture of Fort Zeelandia or the Seizure of Fort Zeelandia was a minor military action on 13 October 1667 at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in which an English force under command of Rear Admiral Sir John Harman assaulted and took by force the Dutch settlement and fortress of Zeelandia (present day Paramaribo) under Maurits de Rame. The English occupied the area but only for a short while as news of the peace of Breda arrived. The Dutch had captured the Zeelandia earlier in the year, and the English recapture was the last battle before the war's end between England and the Dutch Republic.^[1]