Ussher Fort

Ussher Fort
Fort Crèvecoeur
Part of Dutch Gold Coast
Fort Crèvecœur (left) and Fort James (right) in 1727.
Ussher Fort
Coordinates	5°32′19″N 0°12′30″W / 5.5385°N 0.2082°W / 5.5385; -0.2082
Site history
Built	1649 (1649)
Garrison information
Occupants	Netherlands (1649-1868)
UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part of	Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
Criteria	Cultural: (vi)
Reference	34
Inscription	1979 (3rd Session)

Ussher Fort is a fort in Accra, Ghana. It was built by the Dutch in 1649 as Fort Crèvecœur, and is two days' march from Elmina and to the east of Accra on a rocky point between two lagoons. It was one of three forts that Europeans built in the region during the middle of the 17th century.^{[Note 1]} Fort Crèvecœur was part of the Dutch Gold Coast. The Anglo-Dutch Gold Coast Treaty (1867), which defined areas of influence on the Gold Coast, transferred it to the British in 1868. Because of its significance in the history of European colonial trade and exploitation in Africa, the fort was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 (along with several other castles and forts in Ghana).^[1]

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