Ashanti Campaign Collection

Colonel Sir James Willcocks, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Colonel Sir James Willcocks, c1900. British Army officer who served in Africa and India during the period of the British Empire: Second Afghan War, the Second Boer War and the First World War

Sketch Map of the Theatre of War in Ashanti, 1900, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Sketch Map of the Theatre of War in Ashanti, 1900, c1900. Showing Hodgson's line of retreat, line of advance, friendly towns, rivers, roads and sites of battles

The Ashanti Expedition, 1873-74: Sir Garnet Wolseley entering Kumasi, February 4, 1874, (1901). General Sir Garnet Wolseley (1833-1914) led the British campaign against the forces of Kofi Karikari

The Black Watch (42nd Highlanders) Marching to Governors Green, Portsmouth, 1874
Return of the Troops from Ashantee: The Black Watch (42nd Highlanders) Marching to Governors Green, Portsmouth, 1874. British soldiers on parade in Portsmouth having returned from the Anglo-Ashanti

The Ashantee War: the Naval Brigade Clearing the Streets of Coomassie, 1874. Creator: Unknown
The Ashantee War: the Naval Brigade Clearing the Streets of Coomassie, 1874. British sailors terrorising the inhabitants of Kumasi (in what is now Ghana), in a scene from the Anglo-Ashanti war

Burning of Coomassie, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

Funeral of Eyre, c1880. Artist: Joseph Swain
Funeral of Eyre, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]

Advance of Highlanders, c1880. Artist: T. R
Advance of Highlanders, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

A Skirmish in the Forest, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

A Cape Coast King and his Court, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

Warrior of Elmina, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]

Reception of King Koffees Ambassadors in the English Camp, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

Fight at Abracrampa, 1880. Artist: Joseph Swain
Fight at Abracrampa, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

March of Ashantee Warriors, c1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant

The Bonny Men Led The Advance, 1902. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
The Bonny Men Led The Advance, 1902. The Battle of Amoaful was a battle fought on 31st January 1874, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I

Review in Windsor Great Park of the troops from the Ashanti war, 1900. Artist: G Durand
Review in Windsor Great Park of the troops from the Ashanti war, 1900. The march past Queen Victoria. During the Ashanti Campaign

King Koffees Palace, Coomassie, Ashanti War, Africa, 1900. During the Ashanti Campaign, the local Ashanti people offered substantial resistance to British imperial ambitions in Africa

Coomassie, Ashanti War, Africa, 1900. A view of Kumasi in the Gold Coast, (now Ghana, the first African country to gain independence)

Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, KCB, British soldier, 1876. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, KCB, British soldier, 1876. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art

The Irrepressible Nigger!, 1881. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Irrepressible Nigger!, 1881. John Bull, the representative of the British people, is being asked by King Coffee for the return of his state umbrella

Dearly Bought, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
Dearly Bought, 1874. Sir Garnet Wolseley is depicted presenting Britannia with King King Coffees state umbrella. British troops in the background stand guard over the dejected native King

The Levee of the Season, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Levee of the Season, 1874. Queen Victoria reviews her troops. These were the men who had fought in the Ashanti Campaign recently under the leadership of Sir Garnet Wolseley

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