Cape Coast Castle is a fortification in Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

 built by Swedish

British people

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 traders. The first timber construction on the site was erected in 1653 for the Swedish Africa Company and named Carolusborg after King Charles X of Sweden. It was later rebuilt in stone.

In April 1663 the whole Swedish Gold Coast

Swedish Gold Coast

The Swedish Gold Coast was a Swedish colony founded in 1650 on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana and Togo in West Africa. It lasted to April 1663 when the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast....

 was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast

Danish Gold Coast

The Danish Gold Coast was a part of the Gold Coast , which is on the West African Gulf of Guinea...

. In 1664 the Castle was conquered by the English

Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...

 and was extensively rebuilt by the Committee of Merchants (whose Governors administered the entire British colony) in the late 18th century.