Major Alexander Gordon Laing was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu, arriving there via the north-to-south route in August 1826. He was killed shortly after he departed Timbuktu, some five weeks later.
Journalist and explorer
Gordon Laing's House in Timbuktu.
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 allies. The wars were mainly due to Ashanti attempts to maintain and enforce their imperial control over the coastal areas of present-day Ghana, where peoples such as the Fante and the Ga had come under the protection of the British. Although the Ashanti emerged victorious in some of these conflicts, the British ultimately prevailed in the fourth and fifth conflicts, resulting in the complete annexation of the Ashanti Empire by 1900.
"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
The 1874 burning of Kumasi
Wounded soldiers being conveyed to hospital ships