The Dutch East India Company (VOC) responded by sending two ships from Kupang to support Maubara's ruler José Xavier Doutel.

After the successful defense, a unit of one hundred European and Balinese soldiers, under the command of Jacob Pietersz, was sent to Maubara to expand the fort.

That year, the German VOC commander Hans Albrecht von Plüskow [de] lost his life.

[2][3][4][5][6] However, in the Treaty of Lisbon in 1859, the Dutch agreed to cede Maubara to the Portuguese as part of a larger territorial exchange.

[6][2] In 1869, the captain of the Portuguese corvette Sa de Bandeira described the fort as being built of loose stones, close to the sea shore, which at this point was only equipped with a single, rusty cannon.

[2] The building inside the fort dates from the second half of the 20th century and once served as the seat of the local administration of Maubara.