Not to be confused with Castle of Good Hope or Redoubt Duijnhoop.
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Ford de Goede Hoop
Cape Town, South Africa
A model of the fort as it would have appeared in the 1650s
The Fort de Goede Hoop ('Fort of Good Hope') was the first military building to be erected in what is now Cape Town. It was built in 1652, and was in use until 1674[1] when it was superseded by the Castle of Good Hope.
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minister, Petrus Sibelius, in the church inside the FortdeGoedeHoop. The witnesses were Roelof de Man and Pieter van der Stael. On 26 April 1664 she...
Cape Town: Archaeological Excavations of the seventeenth century FortdeGoedeHoop". Fortifications of the Cape Peninsula. 48 (157): 3–15. doi:10.2307/3888871...
way-station for ships travelling to the Dutch East Indies, and the FortdeGoedeHoop (later replaced by the Castle of Good Hope). The settlement grew slowly...
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