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Uganda
The Uganda Protectorate was a British territory centered on the Buganda kingdom ruled by King Mutesa II. Uganda contributed greatly to the British war effort by enlisting soldiers, boosting production of cotton and coffee, and contributing money through loans and donations. While fighting never reached the territory, the war years greatly transformed Ugandan society.

Hanauish Indies


The Hanauish Indies was an unrealized colonial project chartered in 1669 by the German County of Hanau in what is today French Guiana, Suriname and northern Brazil.

In July 1669 in Amsterdam, on behalf of Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg, his adviser Johann Joachim Becher signed a contract with the Dutch West India Company to acquire an area of 3000 Dutch square miles (almost 100,000 km²) as a fief from the company. The aim was to achieve a positive trade balance with a colony in order to offset the financial needs of Hanau, following the ideology of mercantilism. The plan was to found the Kingdom of the Hanauish Indies there and to make the inhabitants into "friendly and civilized" people. The contract reserved extensive rights for the Dutch West India Company, including a monopoly on shipping to and from the colony.

The area of the planned colony was far larger than the County of Hanau itself, approximately 44 Dutch square miles or 1500 km². . From the start there was little possibility of finding the funds or the colonists to support such a project. It ended in a financial fiasco for the County of Hanau. An attempt to sell it to King Charles II of England in 1672 found no success. The project finally failed the same year with the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War.