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THE GROWTH OF
OUR EMPIRE BEYOND THE SEAS"
AN OFFICIAL OF THE GUINEA (ROYAL AFRICAN) COMPANY
TREATY MAKING ON THE GOLD COAST IN 1672.
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[Regd.] Postcard 9147.
THE RISE OF OUR EMPIRE BEYOND THE SEAS. Series I.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' "OILETTE"
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN
After the Black and White Drawing by R. Caton Woodville.
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TUCK'S POST CARD.
CARTE POSTALE.
The Gold Coast. The Gold Coast, now a British
Colony and Protectorate, was once in the hands of the
Portuguese and the Dutch, who, settling there in the
days before England was a sea-going power of import-
ance, built forts and began a search for gold. In 1664,
however, the English successfully attacked the Dutch
defences, and four years later "the new five pieces of
gold coined by the Guiny Company" were issued. In
1844 the jurisdiction of England on the Gold Coast was
defined.
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