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Fort Amsterdam (Sint Eustatius)
🇳🇱 Países Bajos · siglo XVIII
The Waterfort, also called Fort Amsterdam, is a fortress on the southwest coast of Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean, of which only ruins remain. It is one of the sixteen known fortresses on Sint Eustatius and is threatened by sea currents and surf.
The fort housed a two-storey slave house built by Commander Johannes Lindesay between 1724 and 1726 and served as such until around 1740. The slave house housed about 450 people. Women and children were housed on the second floor. In the 18th century, Sint Eustatius was the most profitable asset of the Dutch West India Company and a transit point for enslaved Africans in the transatlantic slave trade.
The fort guarded the entrance to the Oranjebaai of Sint Eustatius, where ships brought goods for the warehouses in the lower town.
Texto adaptado de «Waterfort (Sint Eustatius)» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Amsterdam (Sint Eustatius) ranks #4634 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #73 of the 124 mapped in Países Bajos. Fundado en 1724, más antiguo que el 23% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 360 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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