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*''Died: [[1629]]''
*''Died: [[1629]]''
Jan Pieterzoon Coen was a 17th century governor-general of the Dutch East Indies.
Jan Pieterzoon Coen was a 17th century governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. He was the fourth to hold that position.<ref>Gallery labels, Dutch Trading Post, Hirado.</ref>
He was preceded in that position by [[Pieter de Carpentier]]. Coen has been famously quoted as saying there can be no trade without war, and no war without trade. He led the [[Dutch East India Company]] in violently seizing the city of Jakarta in [[1619]], burning down much of the city and driving out many of the residents, in order to establish the city (now renamed [[Batavia]]) as the chief base of Dutch operations in the region. A year or two later, with the help of some 80-100 Japanese mercenaries, Coen oversaw the massacre of some 15,000 people in the Banda Islands, in the process of claiming those islands, and their valuable nutmeg trees, for the Company.
He was preceded in that position by [[Pieter de Carpentier]]. Coen has been famously quoted as saying there can be no trade without war, and no war without trade. He led the [[Dutch East India Company]] in violently seizing the city of Jakarta in [[1619]], burning down much of the city and driving out many of the residents, in order to establish the city (now renamed [[Batavia]]) as the chief base of Dutch operations in the region. A year or two later, with the help of some 80-100 Japanese mercenaries, Coen oversaw the massacre of some 15,000 people in the Banda Islands, in the process of claiming those islands, and their valuable nutmeg trees, for the Company.
*Plaque on-site at Wayang Museum, Jakarta.
*Plaque on-site at Wayang Museum, Jakarta.
*Gallery labels, Jakarta History Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/40848963163/sizes/k/]
*Gallery labels, Jakarta History Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/40848963163/sizes/k/]
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