In what year was the company that Hieronymous Cruse was a soldier and explorer for chartered?
Hieronymous Cruse Hieronymous Cruse (Jeronimus Croase) was a soldier and explorer for the Dutch East India Company in South Africa.
German West African Company The German West African Company, in German Deutsch-Westafrikanische Gesellschaft / Compagnie, was a German chartered company, founded in 1885. It exploited the two German protectorates in German West Africa (Togo and Cameroon) but did not actually govern them — unlike its counterpart in German East Africa.