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The Battle of Elmina in 1637 was a military engagement between the Portuguese and the Dutch that culminated with the capture of the historical St. George of Elmina Fort by the latter. In 1637, the Dutch West India Company detached nine ships from the forces attacking the Portuguese in Brazil to send them against the Portuguese in Fort Elmina ...
The documented history of Elmina begins in 1482 with an agreement ... For the next 150 years until the conquest by the Dutch in 1637, Elmina was the capital of ...
An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400–1900. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. Doortmont, Michel R.; Jinna Smit (2007). Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands. An annotated guide to the Dutch archives relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593 ...
Ericksz learned about trading on the Elmina coast while he was a prisoner on Principe and subsequently became a major resource to the Dutch in terms of providing geographical and trading information. [13] The Dutch West India Company captured Elmina in 1637; in subsequent centuries it was mostly used as a hub for the slave trade.
To aid in the conflict, known as the second Battle of Elmina (1637), the Dutch encouraged members of the Elmina, Komenda, and Efutu states to turn against the Portuguese. [12] After gaining some local support, the Dutch were better equipped to take on the opposing Portuguese forces and succeeded in capturing a hill facing the fort of Elmina.
The colonial government was based at Fort Nassau in Moree between 1621 and 1637, and at Fort George in Elmina from 1637 onward. [12] When the Dutch conquered Luanda and São Tomé from the Portuguese in 1642, the Dutch West India Company's possessions on the coast of Africa were divided into two separate commandments.
History of Elmina; B. Battle of Elmina (1625) Battle of Elmina (1637) This page was last edited on 29 June 2022, at 01:33 (UTC). Text ...
February 20, 1782 Battle of Elmina; 1824–1901 Anglo–Ashanti wars. 1806–1816 Earlier wars. 1806–1807 Ashanti–Fante War; 1811 Ga–Fante War; 1814–1816 Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War; 1823–1831 First Anglo-Ashanti War. 1823 Battle of Nsamankow; 1863 – 1864 Second Anglo-Ashanti War; 1873 – 1874 Third Anglo-Ashanti War. January 31 ...