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Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty

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Britain divested itself of a naval base which covered the approaches to the main German naval bases in the North Sea, but which would be impossible to defend as Germany built up its navy. It immediately declared a
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Vertrag zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und dem Vereinigten Königreich über die Kolonien und Helgoland vom 1. Juli 1890
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The Anglo-German Treaty (Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty) 1 July 1890, Translation of the German version of the contract
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The treaty of Helgoland-Zanzibar : the beginning of the end for the Anglo-German friendship?
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In exchange, Germany handed over to Britain the protectorate over the small sultanate of
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Gillard, D. R. (1960). "Salisbury's African Policy and the Heligoland Offer of 1890".
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Das Staatsarchiv. Sammlung der offiziellen Aktenstücke zur Geschichte der Gegenwart
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ports. Britain used Zanzibar as a key link in the British control of East Africa.
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from 1887 onward, control of the German Bight had become essential to Emperor
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coast) and parts of East Africa vital for the British to build a railway to
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had acquired a strip of land on the Tanganyikan coast (leading to the 1888
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Heligoland and the making of the Anglo-German colonial agreement in 1890
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Carl Peters and German Imperialism 1856–1918: A Political Biography
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The misleading name for the treaty was introduced by ex-Chancellor
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Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea
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Includes the citation of the English version of the contract.
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Index

Helgoland-Zanzibar Treaty
Berlin
Leo von Caprivi
Friedrich Richard Krauel
de
Sir Edward Baldwin Malet
Sir Henry Percy
Germany
United Kingdom

German
Germany
United Kingdom
Caprivi Strip
German South-West Africa
Zambezi River
Heligoland
German East Africa
Zanzibar
Kiel Canal
North Sea

Imperial German Postal Agency
Heligoland
German
North Sea
dukes of Holstein-Gottorp
Caprivi Strip
Namibia
Dar es Salaam

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