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English-Dutch rivalry
Fort Belgica in 1824
While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands. With the British paying higher prices, they were significantly undermining Dutch aims for a monopoly. As Dutch-British tensions increased, the Dutch built, in 1611, the larger and more strategic Fort Belgica, located above Fort Nassau. In 1615, the Dutch invaded Ai with 900 men and the British retreated to Run where they regrouped. That same night, the British launched a surprise counter-attack on Ai, retaking the island and killing 200 Dutchmen. A year later, a much stronger Dutch force attacked Ai. The defenders were able to hold off the attack with cannon fire, but after a month of siege the defenders ran out of ammunition. The Dutch slaughtered the defendants. The Dutch strengthened the fort and renamed it 'Fort Revenge'. European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda (1667), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.
On August 9, 1810. The British captured the Islands and accepted their surrender from the Dutch after engaging the fortifications in action by Captain C. Cole, with the British warships Caroline (36 guns), Piedmontaise (38 guns), Captain Foote, Barracouta ( 18 guns), Captain Kenah, and Mandarin (12 guns). Kenah had on board about one hundred men of the Madras European Regiment. He had sailed from Madras with supplies for Amboyna, which the British had captured in February.