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Post by carll on Aug 1, 2023 8:09:12 GMT
An aside from my recent musings on the Portuguese buccaneering in Africa, is the image of the Dutch fort on Ghana’s coast where excavations are being made to find earlier ‘English’ fort below. It shows how these latter day ‘buccaneers cum crusaders’ of the seas where connected to wealthy backers building forts to protect their trade interests on the African coast. See www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66359512 CarlL |
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Post by elliesdad on Aug 1, 2023 9:37:20 GMT
An aside from my recent musings on the Portuguese buccaneering in Africa, is the image of the Dutch fort on Ghana’s coast where excavations are being made to find earlier ‘English’ fort below. It shows how these latter day ‘buccaneers cum crusaders’ of the seas where connected to wealthy backers building forts to protect their trade interests on the African coast. See www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66359512 CarlL Interesting … if a touch unsavoury given the particular history. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by carll on Aug 1, 2023 17:01:20 GMT
I agree Geoff, the marauding Europeans only had 'get rich' intentions at somebody elses expense. The fort is interesting as a building or efence I thought what use it was put to historically is another story.
CarlL
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