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Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
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Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
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)
Shirley's Gold Coast expedition
British operation in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1781)
Shirley's Gold Coast expedition was British expedition sent out to capture the Dutch forts on the Dutch Gold Coast during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in early 1781. By the end of the year, the expedition was mostly a success - all of the Dutch forts were seized with the exception…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dutch Gold Coast
Dutch possession in Western Africa between 1598 and 1872
The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea was a portion of contemporary Ghana that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1612. The Dutch began trading in the area around 1598, joining the Portuguese which had a trading…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Gold Coast (British colony)
British colony from 1821 to 1957
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 often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the administration of the Governor of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Country in West Africa
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated with the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east. Ghana covers an area of 239,567…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)