Fort Sekondi
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Fort Sekondi, also Fort George, was an English fort on the Gold Coast, built in 1682 at Sekondi. It was close to the Dutch Fort Orange, which had been built in 1642. This first English building was sm
Fort Orange (left) and Fort Sekondi (right)
Gold Coast (British colony)
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The Colony of the Gold Coast, or simply the Gold Coast, was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also o
The Gold Coast in 1922
The First Anglo-Ashanti War
The Portuguese-built Elmina Castle was purchased by Britain in 1873. Also known as St. George Castle, it is now a World Heritage Site
Following the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War in 1896, the British proclaimed a protectorate over the Ashanti Kingdom.