Demerara (Great Britain)

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Was one of the British colonies in northen South America that were later merged into British Guyana.

Establishment

January 1804: Birtish reconquest of the Demerara territories.

Chronology

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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

1.1.French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Theatre of war in the overseas colonies

The theatre of war in the overseas colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

August 1814: On 13 August 1814, the British combined the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo into the colony of Demerara-Essequibo.