Subject: world class border arc census was Re: real bjneng try afoot<br/>
Date: Jul 02, 2004 @ 23:36<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1688841122">Maybe between 1889 and 1904:<br/>
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&quot;(...) when the boundaries were settled by the agreement of the 10th <br/>
of August 1889 with France, Great Britain was able to secure only a <br/>
ten-kilometre strip on either side of the river. This document fixed <br/>
the frontier of the British protectorate inland at a radius of 10 <br/>
miles from the centre of the town of Yarbatenda; which town is <br/>
situated at the limit of navigability of the Gambia from the sea. By <br/>
Article 5 of the Anglo-French convention of the 8th of April 1904, <br/>
Yarbatenda was ceded to France, with the object of giving that <br/>
country a port on the river accessible to sea-going merchantmen.&quot; -- <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/gambia.htm">http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/gambia.htm</a><br/>
Peter S.<br/>
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--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@y...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Actually, I got the Senegambia information in a book<br/>
&gt; that I made a photocopy from, but I have no idea what<br/>
&gt; book it is (hey, it was a big page filled with mostly<br/>
&gt; uninteresting trivia), so there is an unsubstantiated<br/>
&gt; substantiation right there.<br/>
&gt; Arif<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
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