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Kumasi Collection

Background imageKumasi Collection: The Ashanti Expedition, 1873-74: Sir Garnet Wolseley entering Kumasi, February 4, 1874, (1901)

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

Background imageKumasi Collection: 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. 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

Background imageKumasi Collection: Burning of Coomassie, c1880

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

Background imageKumasi Collection: View of Coomassie, c1880. Artist: W. P

View of Coomassie, c1880. Artist: W. P
View of Coomassie, 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]

Background imageKumasi Collection: On the March to Kumassi: A Halt for Dinner, 1902

On the March to Kumassi: A Halt for Dinner, 1902. The Anglo-Ashanti Wars (1824 -1901) Ghana. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. III

Background imageKumasi Collection: The Prince of Wales planting a tree at the Kumasi Church College, Ghana, 1926

The Prince of Wales planting a tree at the Kumasi Church College, Ghana, 1926. On the death of his father, King George V, in January 1936, Prince Edward (1894-1972) was proclaimed King Edward VIII

Background imageKumasi Collection: King Koffees Palace, Coomassie, Ashanti War, Africa, 1900

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

Background imageKumasi Collection: Coomassie, Ashanti War, Africa, 1900

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

Background imageKumasi Collection: Kumasi, Ashanti, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890

Kumasi, Ashanti, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. In 1957, the Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to become independent, and was renamed Ghana


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