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African Company of Merchants
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The African Company of Merchants was a British chartered company which existed from 1752 to 1821. During its existence, the company administered British trading posts in the Gold Coast region of moder
c. 1800 painting of two British slave ships off Fort Christiansborg
c. 1800 painting of two British slave ships off Fort Christiansborg
Anglo-Ashanti wars
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The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African al
African Company of Merchants
…Leone, Sierra Leone having been founded as a refuge colony for freed formerly enslaved peoples. (Governor McCarthy was subsequently killed in the First Anglo-Asante War.) In 1817, the company signed a treaty of friendship recognising the Asante claims to sovereignty over large areas of the coast, including areas claimed…
"Defeat of the Ashantees, by the British forces under the command of Coll. Sutherland, July 11th 1824"
"Defeat of the Ashantees, by the British forces under the command of Coll. Sutherland, July 11th 1824"
A bush fight,[clarification needed] Third Anglo-Ashanti War. The Graphic 1874
A bush fight,[clarification needed] Third Anglo-Ashanti War. The Graphic 1874
The 1874 burning of Kumasi
The 1874 burning of Kumasi
Wounded soldiers being conveyed to hospital ships
Wounded soldiers being conveyed to hospital ships