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Sketches of the Ashantee War by our special artist: setting fire to a village, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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Sketches of the Ashantee War by our special artist: setting fire to a village, 1874. Third Anglo-Ashanti War. '"Early on the 6th our homeward movements commenced, headed by the Naval Brigade and covered by a rear guard of the 42nd Highlanders, which did not retire till the town had been set on fire in every quarter and the mines in the palace fired. A tornado had raged during the previous day and night, but the destruction of the town by fire was complete...Our active engineers set fire to the thatched roofs of the houses with large and long torches, and the whole town was soon a mass of flames and smoke".' From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A32_367

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Droits gérés

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26,9Mo (2,5Mo) / 31,2cm x 21,6cm / 3688 x 2547 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa building buildings people black male man men destruction house houses arts country law art guy crime burning fire flame flames continent British African village roof war location century Britain torch newspapers press destructive print Ghana expedition concept thatched thatch controversy B&W arson africans controversial thatched roof engraved engraving mayhem Gold Coast 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Asante Ashanti Ghanaian Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper flaming torch Unknown Anglo-Ashanti Wars setting fire to flaming torches 19th-century The Illustrated London News Third Anglo-Ashanti War First Asante Expedition Sagrenti War Third Anglo-Asante War Henry John Lindley Wood Wood Henry John Lindley Henry Wood Lieutenant H. J. L. Wood Wood Henry