Fort Amsterdam (Ghana)

(Also known as " Fort Cormantine " ) Fort Amsterdam was built in 1638-1645 by the British in the coastal Kormantin (or " Cormantin " ) in the Central Region of Ghana. Since 1979, the fort stands on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

1598, the Dutch had a trading post at the same place, but they later left again. Supposedly then has 1631 a renegade employee of the Dutch West India Company called Arent Groote, on behalf of the " English Company of Adventurers Trading to Guynney and Binney " an agreement with the Chief of Kormantse closed, through which passed a nearby hill in the possession of the Company, had built a house there in the same year. After this house was destroyed by a fire, the British built a fort here and named it after the place Fort Cormantin. In 1661, this fort owned by the Royal African Company, a company which had at that time the British monopoly on slave trade and built using the British naval bases on the Gold coast. Fort Cormantin was temporarily the headquarters of the English possessions on the Gold coast.

1665 conquered competing with the English Dutch under Admiral de Ruyter angel the fort and renamed it Fort Amsterdam. 1681/82 extended the Dutch their progress considerably. 1782-85, the fort was again in British hands, in 1785 received the Dutch it by contract back. 1806, the troops of the Aschantireiches conquered the place Kormantin as part of a military conflict with the Fante and their allies, the British. They called on the occupation of the fort (the actually allied Dutch ) to surrender what they did without a fight. The Ashanti plundered the fortress. 1811 attacked the indigenous Anomabus to the fort and destroyed it partially. The Dutch occupied it again, gave it up temporarily and occupied it again. 1868 reached Fort Amsterdam under a contract with the British on the mutual exchange of various forts on the Gold Coast in the possession of the English.