Table 5

list of the Company’s guns, 1656.

Metal    Iron   
Batavia (including surrounding redoubts and bulwarks)    91 207
Moluccas 23 80
Ambon 14 124
Banda 4 117
Solor 6 32
Taiwan 36 107
Malacca 38 14
Coromandel 18 23
Colombo 52 95
Galle 36 21
Total 318 820

Guns not in use: 437.

Source: count of the Company’s artillery held in 1656. voc-archives, Overgekomen brieven en papieren, 1217, fol 138pp.

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