The kurbrandenburgische colony Arguin consisted today's Mauritania of the island Arguin and the opposite coastal strip southeast from cape Blanco (cape Blanc) in the north.

On 5 October 1685 "lion" succeeded to the captain of the kurbrandenburgischen frigate, Cornelius Reers, surprise-raidlike occupation that up to then violently contested island Arguin red ago. Reers, which had to erwehren itself Netherlands and French attacks, prepared the old Portuguese castellet on the island again. It succeeded to it to lock with the native king of Argien a contract in which these Brandenburg as protecting power accepted. The present Treaty was ratified 1687 and renewed 1698 again. The trade in the colony developed favorably. The island was occasionally a central place of transshipment in the international rubber trade. However the colony was exposed to constant attacks of the Dutchmen, Frenchmen and Englishmen.

With the end of the brandenburgisch Prussian colonial ambitions also the end came for the colony Arguin. The Frenchmen forestalled a Netherlands attack and attacked the castellet Arguin. Its crew under captain January Wynen Bastiaens could not withstand the attack, gave the castellet to 9. March 1721 up and withdrew itself fighting to the mainland. Thus the colony Arguin for Brandenburg/Prussia was lost.

Today, in the species-rich coastal landscape with cotton wool, shallow places and small islands and neighbouring desert, ideal a wintering area for migratory birds is there. Fish realm area with sea-turtles and Delfinen.

See also

• Largely Friedrichsburg
• Pc. Thomas (Brandenburg)
• Colonialism
• Arguim

Literature

• Ulrich van the Heyden: Red eagles on Africa coast. The brandenburgisch Prussian colony Grossfriedrichsburg in west Africa. Berlin: Selignow publishing house 2001, ISBN 3-933889-04-9
• Ulrich van the Heyden: The desert island Arguin. In: Ulrich van the Heyden, Joachim Zeller (Hg.) ""Â… Power and portion of the world domination. "Berlin and the German colonialism. Unrast publishing house. 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2

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