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Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: A British expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa landed in Elmina in present-day Ghana.
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War between Great Britain and Dutch Republic, 1780–1784
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. The war, contemporary with the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), broke out over British and Dutch disagreements on the legality and conduct of Dutch trade with Britain's…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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British operation in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1781)
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Dutch possession in Western Africa between 1598 and 1872
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Town in Central Region, Ghana
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