Ashanti Campaign of 1900 - Armitage, Cecil Hamilton a Montanaro, Arthur Forbes

In 1900, the British Governor of the Gold Coast demanded to sit on the symbolically important Golden Stool of the Ashanti people in Ghana, and thereby provoked them to besiege Kumasi. In this 1901 book, the authors, army officers who were part of the British retaliatory force, describe the episode.