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Name: jacob fort

Type: Cluster

Start: 1652 AD

End: 1661 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Jacob Fort (Duchy of Courland and Semigallia)
  • Jacob Fort (Netherlands)
  • Establishment


  • January 1652: The first European settlers on the island came from the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1660: The Dutch briefly held Jacob Fort from 1659.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1662: The English captured it in 1661 and renamed the island James Island and the fort Fort James after James, the Duke of York, later King James II of England.
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