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... Advance into Ashantee . - Essiaman . - Bed - Making . - The Forest changes Character . - A tropical Stream .-- Acrow- fumu.- " Mixed Pickles , Esq . " - A Night Scare . - The Croomen . - Native Gamblers . - The West Indian Encamp- ment ...
... Advance into Ashantee . - Essiaman . - Bed - Making . - The Forest changes Character . - A tropical Stream .-- Acrow- fumu.- " Mixed Pickles , Esq . " - A Night Scare . - The Croomen . - Native Gamblers . - The West Indian Encamp- ment ...
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... advance up the country , would infallibly perish . No middle way seems to have suggested itself to the all - wise advisers of the public , who oddly enough happen to be , man for man , nearly the same as those who , on the strength of ...
... advance up the country , would infallibly perish . No middle way seems to have suggested itself to the all - wise advisers of the public , who oddly enough happen to be , man for man , nearly the same as those who , on the strength of ...
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... advance rapid when they do come . Should it become apparent from minor skirmishes that he can- not trust the natives , then , and not till then , he will have out his English battalions . Should the Ashantees not offer serious ...
... advance rapid when they do come . Should it become apparent from minor skirmishes that he can- not trust the natives , then , and not till then , he will have out his English battalions . Should the Ashantees not offer serious ...
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... advance to Annamaboe in 1807 was followed by the invasion of 1811 , this again by the advance to Cape Coast Castle in 1817 , when the Ashantees were bought off ; and this by the insult and invasion of 1823. The sad failure of Sir ...
... advance to Annamaboe in 1807 was followed by the invasion of 1811 , this again by the advance to Cape Coast Castle in 1817 , when the Ashantees were bought off ; and this by the insult and invasion of 1823. The sad failure of Sir ...
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... advance ; and I may even hope , with the aid of the Houssas and these forces to have cleared the country on this side of the Prah . " I may therefore say that , on the arrival of the troops in these roads about the middle of December ...
... advance ; and I may even hope , with the aid of the Houssas and these forces to have cleared the country on this side of the Prah . " I may therefore say that , on the arrival of the troops in these roads about the middle of December ...
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2nd West Abrakampa advance ammunition Amoaful arrived Ashantee army Ashantee camp attack Barracouta battalions bush CAPE COAST CASTLE Captain Glover carried carriers chiefs clear climate Colonel Festing command Coomassie Cornhill Crown 8vo Demy 8vo despatch Dunquah Edition effect Elmina employed enemy England English troops Essaman European expedition fact Fantee fever fight fire force front Gold Coast Gordon Governor ground guns Honour Houssas kind King of Ashantee landed letter Lieutenant Majesty Majesty's Mampon Mansue Marines ment miles move Naval Brigade necessary night officers passed Paternoster Row path peace possible Post Prah Prahsu present Price prisoners Published by Henry reached ready Regiment retreat road Royal Artillery sailors seen sent side Sierra Leone Simoom Sir Garnet Wolseley skirmish slaves soon thing tion trees tribes village West India Regiment West Indians whilst whole wounded yards
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