The Ashantee War: A Popular NarrativeH. S. King & Company, 1874 - 408 páginas |
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... village of Tacorady , the party of sailors who had been landed had been fired into from the neigh- bouring bush , and had suffered severely . There was no doubt that the effect of these disasters would be to render all the tribes of the ...
... village of Tacorady , the party of sailors who had been landed had been fired into from the neigh- bouring bush , and had suffered severely . There was no doubt that the effect of these disasters would be to render all the tribes of the ...
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... village - a veritable castle , or what ? Here , as it lies before us , the reason for all this is plain enough . There is a town —in a rambling sort of way , a considerable town . There is an appearance about the native huts , even at ...
... village - a veritable castle , or what ? Here , as it lies before us , the reason for all this is plain enough . There is a town —in a rambling sort of way , a considerable town . There is an appearance about the native huts , even at ...
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... villages almost on the sea - beach , especially three , which are distant from Elmina respec- tively about four , seven ... village called Essaman . It lies about four miles to the north - west of Elmina . " The Chiefs of all these four ...
... villages almost on the sea - beach , especially three , which are distant from Elmina respec- tively about four , seven ... village called Essaman . It lies about four miles to the north - west of Elmina . " The Chiefs of all these four ...
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... village of Essaman ; then to return towards the beach upon the three sea coast places of Amquana , Akimfoo , and Ampenee . Meantime , as soon as firing was heard at Essaman , the fleet was to open upon Ampenee and Akimfoo . Thus it was ...
... village of Essaman ; then to return towards the beach upon the three sea coast places of Amquana , Akimfoo , and Ampenee . Meantime , as soon as firing was heard at Essaman , the fleet was to open upon Ampenee and Akimfoo . Thus it was ...
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... villages . Over this cleared ground there grow again immediately creepers and flowering plants innumerable . Sometimes . the space from the pathway to the dense bush is covered with one delicate green mass of feathery sensitive plant ...
... villages . Over this cleared ground there grow again immediately creepers and flowering plants innumerable . Sometimes . the space from the pathway to the dense bush is covered with one delicate green mass of feathery sensitive plant ...
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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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