Niger Coast Protectorate
Niger Coast Protectorate The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in ...
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Protectorate
Protectorate This article is about states protected and ... British Isles as Lord Protector, see The Protectorate. A protectorate is, in international law, a political entity ... third parties, in exchange for which the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations, which may vary ... may often be very favorable for the protectorate. The political interest of the protector ...
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Niger Delta
Niger Delta The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated ... The area was the British Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 until 1893, when it was expanded and became the Niger Coast Protectorate. View of Niger Delta ...
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Coromandel Coast
Coromandel Coast This article is about the Coromandel Coast of India. For the similarly named region ... New Zealand, see Coromandel Peninsula The Coromandel Coast is the name given to the southeastern coast of the Indian peninsula. It is generally ... dynasty of southern India. Historically the Coromandel Coast generally referred to the stretch of ...
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History of Niger
History of Niger This is the history of Niger. See also the history of Africa and ... the history of West Africa. Pre-colonial Niger Considerable evidence indicates that about 60,000 ... since become the desolate Sahara of northern Niger. Long before the arrival of French influence and control in the area, Niger was an important economic crossroads, and ...
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Royal Niger Company
Royal Niger Company The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by ... known regions of the lower and middle Niger River, and for over twenty years his ... combine all British commercial interests in the Niger, and this he accomplished in 1879 when ... able to announce that on the lower Niger the British flag alone flew. Meantime ...
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Evolution of the British Empire
... Event Ending Political Entity Current Jurisdiction Basutoland protectorate (1868-1871) annexed to Cape Colony Lesotho ... governing colony (1965-1966) independence C " Bechuanaland protectorate (1884-1964) Botswana " colony (1964-1965) " " self ... restored to Egypt Egypt " occupation (1882-1914) " " protectorate (1914-1922) restored to Egypt " - Suez Canal ... 1956) restored to Egypt " Northern Nigeria Nigeria - Niger District protectorate under United African Company (1885-1899) ...
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Africa at the XIXe century   (translated from French)
... the territory of Cotonou in 1868 and protectorate in 1880 . Botswana British missionaries arrived on ... territory, into allied of England, then in protectorate. As of 1897 , a railway line connected ... tradesmen had established commercial counters throughout the coast of the territory of Doualas for the ... the tribes, establishing in fact a German protectorate confirmed with congress of Berlin in 1885 ... Comores The archipelago is placed under French protectorate in 1886 . Congo Brazzavile Á the ...
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High Commissioner
... Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, off the Canadian coast) were temporarily grouped together (from June 1940 ... America, St-Pierre&Miquelon off the Canadian coast, so in North America) held both administrative ... an independent republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) had two High Commissioners since it was granted autonomy as republic of Ivory Coast: 4 December 1958 - 15 July 1960 Ernest ... two High commissioners, after having been a protectorate since 12 May 1903 (under a ...
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History of Ghana
... Ghana Ghana was previously called the Gold Coast, but was renamed Ghana upon independence in ... by the Fante nation of the Gold Coast in 1470, when a party of Portuguese ... first recorded English trading voyage to the coast was made by Thomas Windham in 1553 ... Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony. In 1806 the Ashanti-Fante War ... See also Ashanti Invasion of the Gold Coast). In 1821, the British Government took ...
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