This print shows the two slave forts on the island, Fort St Michel, and Fort Vermandois.

Goree in West Africa, was first occupied by the Portuguese in the 15th century, captured by the Dutch in 1617, recaptured by the Portuguese again, then lost to the Dutch again, who fortified the island in 1647. England captured it during the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-67), but lost it to the Dutch once again. The French captured and occupied it in 1677, for all but a few years during the Seven Years War (1756–63),, when it was held by England, but in the treaty at the end of the war in 1763 England returned it to France. It was a very important slave trading centre, and gave its name to one of the quays in Liverpool docks.