The Battle of Penfui took place on 9 November 1749 in the hillside of Penfui, near modern Kupang. A large Topass army was defeated by a numerically inferior Dutch East India Company force following the withdrawal of the former's Timorese allies from the battlefield, resulting in the death of the Topass leader Gaspar da Costa. Following the battle, both Topass and Portuguese influence on Timor declined, eventually leading to the formation of a boundary between Dutch and Portuguese Timor which precipitated into the modern border between West Timor and East Timor.
The BattleofPenfui took place on 9 November 1749 in the hillside ofPenfui, near modern Kupang. A large Topass army was defeated by a numerically inferior...
Gaspar da Costa (d. Penfui, West Timor, 9 November 1749) was the leader or tenente geral (lieutenant general) of the Portuguese-speaking Topasses, a Eurasian...
initially deployed around Kupang, and the strategic airfield ofPenfui in the south-west corner of the island, although other units were based at Klapalima...
considerable force he was routed and killed at the BattleofPenfui, after which the Dutch expanded their control of western Timor. Many Timorese princedoms which...
the BattleofPenfui, and subsequently moved their residence to Pante Macassar (Oecusse) in 1759 due to Dutch military pressure. The capital of the governor...
disaster in 1749, despite superior numbers, the rule of both in West Timor collapsed. At the BattleofPenfui (today Kupang's El Tari International Airport is...
Portuguese grip over western Timor receded greatly after the 1749 BattleofPenfui, and the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie...
the planes returned to Penfui airfield in Kupang, and a second sortie comprising five planes was launched. The second wave of paratroopers, however, proceeded...
River on behalf of the British grant to the Ohio Company. November 9 – BattleofPenfui on Timor: A large Topass army is defeated by a numerically inferior...
the Topass defeat at the hand of the VOC in the BattleofPenfui on November 1749, the territory of Amanuban was included in the Dutch political alliance...
River on behalf of the British grant to the Ohio Company. November 9 – BattleofPenfui on Timor: A large Topass army is defeated by a numerically inferior...
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allies in the BattleofPenfui. After this event, a number of Timorese princedoms submitted to the VOC, so that the state of semi-siege of the Kupang area...
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