Fort Vijf Sinnen

Fort Vijf Sinnen
Part of Dutch Coromandel

18th-c. map of the fort
Fort Vijf Sinnen
Coordinates 10°45′00″N 79°50′00″E / 10.750066°N 79.833439°E / 10.750066; 79.833439
Site history
Built 1690 (1690)
Built by Dutch East India Company
Demolished Yes

Fort Vijf Sinnen (also Vyf Sinnen, Dutch for "the five senses") was a fortification made by the Dutch East India Company in Nagapattinam, then part of Dutch Coromandel (1610-1798), now Tamil Nadu. The fortification, also described as a castle, was built to protect the interests of the trading company, which shifted the capital of the Coromandel operation from Pulicat to Nagapattinam in 1690, three years after work began on the fort.[1]

The heavily armed fort in the end proved useless in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam, in which the British took the fort. In the Treaty of Paris of 1784 which ended the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of which this siege was part, Nagapattinam was not restored to Dutch rule, but remained British. The headquarters of the colony shifted back to Pulicat.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Dutch on the Coromandel". The Hindu. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Ratnatunga, Kavan U. (2006). "Paliakate - VOC Kas Copper Dumps, 1646 - 1794 - Dutch India]". Dutch India coins - Pulicat. lakdiva.org. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
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