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    Cape Mesurado, also called Cape Montserrado, is a headland on the coast of Liberia near the capital Monrovia and the mouth of the Saint Paul River. It...
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    Monrovia (category Mesurado River)
    capital and largest city of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2022 census had 1,761,032 residents...
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    Coast or Grain Coast was a coastal area of western Africa, between Cape Mesurado and Cape Palmas. It encloses the present republic of Liberia. The name was...
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  • secure a place for colonization.: 336 : 23  A conference was held at Cape Mesurado, which the locals called Ducor. Under the terms of the Ducor Contract...
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  • treaty under duress with six tribal kings on the purchase of land at Cape Mesurado. He served as the colonial agent of the American Colonization Society...
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  • actions in 1822 when she is alleged to have defended the settlement Cape Mesurado with a cannon she lit from her pipe. She is a controversial figure in...
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    the second ACS ship, the Nautilus. In December 1821, they acquired Cape Mesurado, a 36-mile-long (58 km) strip of land near present-day Monrovia, from...
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    tribes in the vicinity, Stockton and Ayers acquired Cape Mesurado and land on Dozoa Island in the cape for settlement. The Colony of Liberia was established...
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  • 1841. He was appointed Colonel of the 3rd West India Regiment in 1843. Cape Mesurado was being used as a base for the slave trade and in 1815 Maxwell, then...
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    fraud... Because Ayers kept a detailed journal of the 1821 journey to Cape Mesurado [now Liberia], and newspapers printed the text of the agreement, we...
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    of the original African-American settlers who founded the colony at Cape Mesurado, and his second wife Rachel Wright (b. 1798), another early settler...
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    capes discovered and named along the Grain Coast: (Grand Cape Mount, Cape Mesurado and Cape Palmas). 1460—Death of Prince Henry, the Navigator. His systematic...
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  • in Kerala, India Mamba Point, zone in Monrovia, Liberia, north of Cape Mesurado Kobe Bryant Mamba (deep learning), a deep learning architecture Mamba...
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  • on Bushrod Island. Bushrod Island is in Montserrado County (formerly Cape Mesurado), Liberia. Today, King Peter's Town where his Palace was stationed is...
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    (Birth–Death) Term of office Race Title Took office Left office Time in office Cape Mesurado Colony 1 Eli Ayers (1778–1822) 15 December 1821 25 April 1822 131 days...
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    settlers. The survivors relocated in April 1822 to Providence Island at Cape Mesurado in what developed as the nation of present-day Liberia. In 1861 the...
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    in a southwesterly direction. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Mesurado in Monrovia near Bushrod Island, separating Monrovia from its suburb...
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  • Martinique for West Africa on 30 January 1816. She was sailing off Cape Mesurado, a place known for its role in the slave trade and which had been raided...
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    by the Atlantic Ocean and on the south and east by the Mesurado River, including Cape Mesurado and land on Dozoa Island in the bay. To ensure the validity...
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    23,000 exiled. April 25 – The American Colonization Society lands at Cape Mesurado on the West African coast, after purchasing 60 miles (97 km) of coastline...
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    Stockton also convinced the local African chief to relinquish land around Cape Mesurado, where Liberia eventually formed. Stockton became the commander of the...
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    militia was first formed when in August 1822 an attack was feared on Cape Mesurado (where Monrovia now is) and the agent of the settlements directed the...
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    the West Africa Squadron for slave trading off the African coast at Cape Mesurado. HMS Queen Charlotte had originally vindicated the seizure and confiscation...
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    Africa Squadron. They noted the action taken against a slave factory at Cape Mesurado Ninth Report of the Directors of the African Institution, presented...
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    contribution was the selection and acquisition of the territory around Cape Mesurado by her commanding officer and a representative of the American Colonization...
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  • May 1807. Minerva acquired captives at the Sierra Leone estuary, Cape Mesurado, and Cape Mount. She arrived at Barbados on 8 February 1808, where she landed...
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  • what probably was the same brig robbed two American ships anchored at Cape Mesurado in Liberia. Two British warships were dispatched to catch the pirate...
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  • 1791. In October 1793, the company sent Ocean to cruise from Bissau to Cape Mesurado. Her mission was to visit the forts on the way to purchase African commodities...
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  • Pindar, a lay catechist from Baltimore, set sail from Baltimore for Cape Mesurado. After a time, finding that he did not receive missionaries enough to...
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  • ) In October 1793, the company sent Ocean to cruise from Bissau to Cape Mesurado. Her mission was to visit the forts on the way to purchase African commodities...
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