Fort Anké

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Fort Anké was a fort located in North Jakarta, Indonesia. It was built by the Dutch East India Company in 1657{{cite web | url=http://www.jakarta.go.id/jakv1/encyclopedia/detail/726 | title=Angke, Fort | publisher=Jakarta City Administration | accessdate=July 6, 2011 | language=Indonesian | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107140157/http://www.jakarta.go.id/web/encyclopedia/detail/63/jakarta-balai-kota | archive-date=November 7, 2016 | url-status=dead }} along the river of the same name, to the west of the city of Jakarta.{{cite web |url=http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/en/location/?id=474&tab=main |title=Anckee |author= |date=2014 |website=Atlas of Mutual Heritage |publisher= AMH|accessdate=August 1, 2014}} Historical names for the fort include Anckee, Anke, and Ankee.

Three officers of the French corsair Le Modeste were held as prisoners at the fort for five months, when French naturalist J.-J. La Billardière visited them in November 1796. The same text says the fort was located an hour from Batavia.{{cite journal |last= Chevalier|first=Aug. |date=May–June 1953 |title= Un grand voyageur naturaliste normand : J.-J. La Billardière (1755-1834) (Suite et fin) .|trans-title= A great naturalist Norman traveler J.-J. La Billardière (1755-1854)(Concluded)|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jatba_0370-5412_1953_num_33_367_6588 |language= French|journal= Revue internationale de botanique appliquée et d'agriculture tropicale |volume=33 |issue= 367-368|pages=185–202 |doi= 10.3406/jatba.1953.6588|accessdate=August 1, 2014 }}

A Dutch map from 1740 shows the fort at the intersection of the Mookervaart channel and Angke river.{{cite web |url=http://www.jakarta.go.id/eng/encyclopedia/detail/3499 |title=Vijfhoek Redoute |author= |date=1995–2012 |website=Jakarta Encyclopedia |publisher=Department of Communication, Informatics and Public Relations of Jakarta Capital City |accessdate=August 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808050348/http://www.jakarta.go.id/eng/encyclopedia/detail/3499 |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

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