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The colony of Gustavus was founded by the USE-based United Equatorial Company in February of 1634, on the site of OTL Paramaribo, Suriname. The colony was named in honor of Gustavus Adolphus, and had the right to fly the Swedish flag as well as that of the USE, though it received no direct Swedish support. (The United Equatorial Company had originally been formed under the New United States, but there was concern that the flag of the NUS would not be recognized.) It also had a formal license from the Dutch West India Company. The head of the United Equatorial Company, David Pieterszoon de Vries, was a patroon of the West India Company -- and in late 1633-early 1634, Sweden and the USE were the only allies what was left of the Dutch Republic still had.

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  • The colony of Gustavus was founded by the USE-based United Equatorial Company in February of 1634, on the site of OTL Paramaribo, Suriname. The colony was named in honor of Gustavus Adolphus, and had the right to fly the Swedish flag as well as that of the USE, though it received no direct Swedish support. (The United Equatorial Company had originally been formed under the New United States, but there was concern that the flag of the NUS would not be recognized.) It also had a formal license from the Dutch West India Company. The head of the United Equatorial Company, David Pieterszoon de Vries, was a patroon of the West India Company -- and in late 1633-early 1634, Sweden and the USE were the only allies what was left of the Dutch Republic still had.
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  • The colony of Gustavus was founded by the USE-based United Equatorial Company in February of 1634, on the site of OTL Paramaribo, Suriname. The colony was named in honor of Gustavus Adolphus, and had the right to fly the Swedish flag as well as that of the USE, though it received no direct Swedish support. (The United Equatorial Company had originally been formed under the New United States, but there was concern that the flag of the NUS would not be recognized.) It also had a formal license from the Dutch West India Company. The head of the United Equatorial Company, David Pieterszoon de Vries, was a patroon of the West India Company -- and in late 1633-early 1634, Sweden and the USE were the only allies what was left of the Dutch Republic still had. The colony was seen as a potential source of rubber and bauxite. The latter was significant because cryolite, which is used as a flux for extracting aluminum from bauxite, had been obtained from Greenland. The Gustavus colony and the area it controlled was a free zone. At the insistence of the United Equatorial Company's up-time backers, the colonial charter prohibited slavery. Beginning in early 1635, the approach to Gustavus was guarded by Fort Lincoln, at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne Rivers. It is implied that the fort was named for the up-time American president Abraham Lincoln. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
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