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COEN, JAN PIETERSZOON (1587-1630)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 644 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COEN, JAN PIETERSZOON (1587-1630) , fourth
governor
 -general of the Dutch
East
  Indies, was born at Hoorn, and spent his youth at Rome in the
house
  of the famous merchants the Piscatori. In 1607 he sailed from
Amsterdam
  to the Indies as second commercial agent, and remained away four years. He had proved so capable that in 1612 he was sent out a second time at the head of a trading expedition. In the following year he was made a councillor and director-general of the
East
  Indian
trade
 . Afterwards he became president at Bantam, and on the 31st of October 1617 he was promoted in succession to Laurens Reaal to the post of
governor
 -general. To his vigour and intrepidity the Dutch in no small measure owed the preservation and
establishment
  of their empire in the East. He took and destroyed Jacatra, and founded on its ruins the
capital
  of the Dutch East Indies, to which he gave the name of Batavia. In 1622 Coen obtained leave to resign his post and return to Holland, but in his absence
great
  difficulties had arisen with the English at Amboina (the so-called massacre of Amboina), and in 1627 under pressure from the directors of the East India Company he again returned as governor-general to Batavia. In 1629 he was able to beat off a formidable attack of the sultan of Mataram, sometimes styled emperor of Java, upon Batavia. He died the following year.


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