Fort Amsterdam's History
Barbot is a Frenchman who traveled extensively around the Gold Coast, and is considered one of the primary sources for this period of history. The Dutch built Fort Good Hope at Egya in 1647 but the English captured it in 1664; the English settled there during the Third Anglo-Dutch War…
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Danish visitor Eric Tilleman estimates the number of warriors along the coast as: Apam: 300; Cormantin: 300; Cape Coast: 400; Mouri: 100; Elmina: 1,000. He provides the following description of the Kormantin area: “Outside the aforementioned bay, on a mountain, lies the Dutch Fortress Cormantin where one anchors directly in…
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The conflict disrupted trade and pitted the Dutch West India Company and its Eguafo allies against Royal African Company-backed factions over the right to trade and maintain forts at Kommenda and succession to the Eguafo throne. The war also involved inland Akan Denkyira and Twifo traders seeking coastal access to…
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