Vol V, Plate 14. Pag.177. Fort Gross Fredericksburgh was built above the sea on Manfro Hill at what is now Princestown, Western Ghana, in 1683-4 by the Brandenburg Africa Company as their local headquarters and was the only German-built fort in West Africa.The Brandenburgers' highly effective and useful whose local ally was John Conny, chief of the Ahanta, and when they sold their West Africa interests to the Dutch in 1717 (without his knowledge) he occupied the fort for seven years. From it he conducted a lucrative trade with all nations, undercutting European traders, and resisted the Dutch until their forces evicted him in 1724. It was then renamed Fort Hollandia but was only used as a minor Dutch post. The print is wrong in stating the fort was Danish and apparently so that it fell to the English. With images below of Fort Amsterdam (Dutch) at Cormentyn (Cormantin) and Fort James (English) at Accra. {PvdM 9/12]