Fort Charles

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Fort Charles was a fortress on the inland island of Dog Island in the Gambia River in what is now the West African state of Gambia .

Sir Robert Holmes , who wanted to protect the trading activities of the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading , built a small fort on Dog Island in the early 1660s and named it in honor of King Charles II "Fort Charles", and the island from then on Charles Island . However, the fort was abandoned in 1666.

When Captain Alexander Grant leased St. Mary's Island in 1816 and had a military base built there around which the Bathurst settlement, now the capital of Banjul , was built, they took stones from Dog Island as building material. It is not known to what extent remains of the fort have survived today.

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literature

  1. ↑ www.fortified-places.com “Fort James” , accessed May 2010
  2. ↑ Rosel Jahn: Gambia. Travel guide with regional studies. With a travel atlas (= Mai's Weltführer. Vol. 29). Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4

Coordinates: 13 ° 21 ′ 53 "  N , 16 ° 30 ′ 34"  W.