Christian Schiønning
Christian Schiønning (died 1 March 1817) was a governor of the Danish Gold Coast, a Danish Crown Colony. He governed from the colony's capital, Fort Christiansborg.
Schiønning as governor[]
In 1811, during his term as governor, Schiønning was forced to pay a ransom of one hundred ounces of gold to the Empire of Ashanti for the release of the commandant of Fort Konigenstein, the Danish fort at Ada, who had helped , king of the Akwapim, escape from the army of Apoko, an Ashanti general under Asantehene Osei Bonsu.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ A History of the Gold Coast of West Africa, Alfred Burdon Ellis, page 124; London: Chapman & Hall, Id, 1893.
References[]
- http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Ghana.html#Danish
- Ellis, Alfred Burdon (1893). A History of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Negro Universities Press.
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