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George Maclean
George Maclean was a Scottish officer who, as president of the council of merchants at Cape Coast from 1830, governed the British forts on the Gold Coast. He made peace with the Ashanti Empire in 1831 and extended informal British jurisdiction over the Fante states, which led to the Bond of 1844.
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