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House of Hope (Dutch: Huys de Hoop), also known as Fort Good Hope (Dutch: Fort de Goede Hoop), was a redoubt and factory in the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland. The trading post was located at modern-day Hartford, Connecticut at Park River), a tributary river of the Fresh River (Connecticut River). The location of this ...
A picture of the Fort of Good Hope (De Goede Hoop) built at the Cape of clay and wood by Jan van Riebeeck in 1652. The Fort was built by the Dutch East India Company, when it established a replenishment station under Jan van Riebeeck on the shore of Table Bay in 1652. [2]
The Castle of Good Hope (Dutch: Kasteel de Goede Hoop; Afrikaans: Kasteel die Goeie Hoop) [1] is a 17th century bastion fort in Cape Town, South Africa.Originally located on the coastline of Table Bay, following land reclamation the fort is now located inland.
Fort de Goede Hoop or Fort Good Hope was a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, established in 1667 near Senya Beraku. The Dutch had already had a lodge in Senya Beraku in the 1660s, but that was abandoned when the British built their fort at nearby Winneba. In 1704, the Dutch asked the Queen of Agona for permission to build a fort at Senya Beraku.
The settlement was established as a North West Company fur trading outpost in 1804 (or 1805). [6] It was known mainly as Fort Good Hope, but also as Fort Hope and Fort Charles (not the same as the HBC fort from 1686) The outpost was relocated several times from the current site; between 1804 and before 1823 somewhere between Arctic Red River and Peel River (by NWC and HBC) near Tsiigehtchic ...
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English: The front and side view of Fort de Goede Hoop (Good Hope) in Senya Beraku. Date: 1 September 2017, 13:56:13: Source: Own work: Author: Macabe5387: Licensing.
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