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stood in the town until August 2007 when broken up by scrap metal scavengers. Grant had chaired an international arbitration committee that, in 1870, granted Bolama to
Portugal rather than to Great Britain. In gratitude, Grant's image was one of few colonial era statues to have survived into
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809:References
741:, Portugal
723:Bolama is
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167:Population
94:15°28′58″W
91:11°34′36″N
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870:. London.
867:The Times
159:Elevation
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