Industrial Age · Africa · War

1873

Anglo-Ashanti War

1873

Sir Garnet Wolseley led a punitive expedition into the Ashanti Empire in what is now Ghana, burned the capital Kumasi, and imposed an indemnity. It was the template for Victorian small wars: careful logistics, Gatling guns, limited aims. The Ashanti would rise again in 1874, 1895, and 1900. Each time the story was the same.

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Before and after in Africa

Before: February 26, 1871: Stanley Finds Livingstone
After: January 15, 1874: Third Anglo-Ashanti Ends

Before and after in War

Before: October 27, 1870: Metz Capitulates
After: January 15, 1874: Third Anglo-Ashanti Ends

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.