Address Elmina, Ghana Year built 1652 | Phone +233 24 436 9481 | |
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Occupants Netherlands (1652-1872) Similar Elmina Castle, Fort Orange - Ghana, Fort Metal Cross, Fort Amsterdam - Ghana, Fort James | ||
Fort Coenraadsburg or Conraadsburg, also Fort Sao Jago da Mina, is a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, built in 1652 to protect Fort Elmina from attacks. It was built on the site of a fortified chapel that the Portuguese had built and that the Dutch had burned to the ground in the Battle of Elmina (1637). The Dutch ceded the fort to Britain in 1872, together with the entire Dutch Gold Coast.
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