| | Colonial Flags (Brandenburg, Germany) |
 | | On 1 January 1683, a Brandenburger expedition of two ships, arrived in the Gold Coast, and started to build a strong fort between Axim and Cape of Three Points, which was named Gross-Friedrichsburg. |
| | There was in the late 17th and early 18th century a Brandenburg African Company which ran a strongpoint on the Gold Coast (called I think Gross Friedrichsburg) and which participated in the slave trade with the West Indies. |
| | The Brandenburg African Company was created around 1680 and its flag was white, with the red eagle of Brandenburg topped with the electoral cap and the shield of Electoral Brandenburg [blue shield with the Reichserbkämmerer's golden scepter] on her breast. |
| www.fotw.net /Flags/de-br_co.html (954 words) |
