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    British Guiana - Wikipedia

    • British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first known Europeans to encounter Guiana were Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer, and his crew. Raleigh published a book entitled The Discovery … See more

    Establishment

    The English made at least two unsuccessful attempts in the 17th century to colonise the lands that would later be known as British Guiana. By that time, the Dutch had established two colonies in the area: … See more

    Economy and politics

    The economy was based on cultivation and processing of sugarcane as a commodity crop, dependent on extensive labor by enslaved workers of mostly sub-Saharan African descent. Although the UK and the United Stat… See more

    Railways

    British colonists built the first railway system in British Guiana: 98 km (61 mi) of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge, from Georgetown to Rosignol, and 31 km (19 mi) of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) line between Vreeden H… See more

    Administration

    The British long continued the forms of Dutch colonial government in British Guiana. A Court of Policy exercised both legislative and executive functions under the direction of the colonial Governor (which existed fro… See more

    Territorial disputes

    In 1840, the British Government assigned the German-born explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk to survey and mark out the western boundary of British Guiana with newly independent Venezuela. Venezuela did not acc… See more

    Stamps and postal history of British Guiana

    British Guiana is famous among philatelists for its early postage stamps, which were first issued in 1850. These stamps include some of the rarest, most expensive stamps in the world, such as the unique British Guiana 1c … See more

     
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    The British took over in 1796 and remained in possession, except for short intervals, until 1814, when they purchased Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, which in 1831 were united as the colony of British Guiana.
    The British renamed the principle city as Georgetown in 1812 and formally accepted possession of the three colonies in 1814 as part of the Treaty of London. In 1831, the three separate colonies were united into the single political entity British Guiana.
    THE former Dutch colonies of Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice were finally ceded to the British through conquest in 1803. Formal cession was effected by the 1814 Treaty of Paris and in 1831 the three colonies were united into the “Colony of British Guiana” with Sir Benjamin Durban as its first Governor.
    The territories were captured by Britain in 1796, restored to the Dutch in 1802, recaptured in 1803 and formally ceded to Britain in 1814. All three were united as British Guiana in 1831.
     
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  5. British Guiana Colony - British Empire

    In 1831, the three separate colonies were united into the single political entity British Guiana. In 1835 the British government asked the German explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk to map British Guiana and mark its boundaries.

  6. British Guiana Colonists – Historical database of residents

  7. Guyana - Colonialism, Independence, Culture

    6 days ago · The British took over in 1796 and remained in possession, except for short intervals, until 1814, when they purchased Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, which in 1831 were united as the colony of British Guiana.

  8. British Guiana, 1868-1938 - British Online Archives

  9. British Guiana - Wikiwand

  10. The Making of a Crown Colony: British Guiana, 1803–33

  11. British Guiana Colonists

  12. Sources - Guyana/British Guiana Genealogical Society

  13. The colonial history of British Guiana - Morning Star

  14. Constitutional developments in colonial British Guiana

  15. History of British Guiana 1922 | PhD digitisation project

  16. British Guiana. - Library of Congress

  17. British Guiana - The Atlantic