What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 1637 – 29 Aug 1637
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 5.08° N, 1.35° W
- Description
- 1637 battle during the Dutch-Portuguese War
- Naval
- yes
Battle of Elmina (1637)
1637 during the Dutch-Portuguese War
The Battle of Elmina in 1637 was a military engagement between the Portuguese and the Dutch that culminated with the capture of the historical St. George of Elmina Fort by the latter.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Fighting in the modern-day West African nation of Ghana, troops of the Dutch West India Company capture the Portuguese territory of the Gold Coast after the…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Schlacht um Elmina beginnt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page