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Fort Tantumquery

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66:. This is a pretty litte regular Fort having Four Flankers, on which are mounted Twelve Pieces of Ordnance. It is pleasantly situated near the Sea Side. The Landing-place, indeed, is but very indifferent, I have seen Eight fishing Canoes out of Fifteen overset at their Landing here, by which unlucky accident they lost all their fish. " 54:
surveyed it after the RAC had appointed him to review their castles in Africa following disturbing reports that they were unprofitable. Smith described it as follows:
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in Nine Fathoms Water. I went ashore and finding their Tank pretty low, could get but Four Casks of Water which I sent off in our
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Forts of the former European colonial powers on the
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Index

military structure
slave trade
Royal African Company
Otuam
Mfantsiman Municipal District
Central Region
Gold Coast
William Smith
Yaul
"The Fort at Tantumquery"
A new voyage to Guinea
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Gold Coast
Brandenburg-Prussian forts
Groß Friedrichsburg
Dorothea
British forts
Apollonia
Metal Cross
Sekondi
Komenda
Cape Coast
Victoria
Royal
William
William (lighthouse)
Tantumquery
Winneba

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