Fort Amsterdam

Fort Amsterdam is a castle in Kormantin, Central place, Ghana. It was built with the aid of the English among 1638 and 1645 as Fort Cormantin or Fort Courmantyne, and became captured by means of admiral Michiel de Ruyter of the Dutch West India Company in 1665. It become subsequently made a part of the Dutch Gold Coast, and remained part of it till the fortress changed into traded with the British in 1868. The Fort is placed at Abandze on the north-east of Cape Coast within the Central Region of Ghana.

Early in 1782, Captain Thomas Shirley inside the 50-gun deliver Leander and the sloop-of-conflict Alligator sailed to the Dutch Gold Coast. Britain changed into at war with The Netherlands and Shirley captured the small Dutch forts at Moree Fort Nassau 20 weapons, Kormantin Courmantyne or 32 guns, Apam Fort Lijdzaamheid or Fort Patience 22 guns, Senya Beraku Fort Goede Hoop 18 guns, and Accra Fort Crevecoeur or Ussher Fort 32 guns.