The Ashanti War 1873 & Wolseley's Ashanti Ring
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The Ashanti Empire in modern day Ghana, West Africa, were to prove one of the most tenacious enemies the British faced in 19th century Africa.
It would take, the ingenuity of one of 19th century Britain’s greatest generals to better them.
This is the story of General Sir Garnet Wolseley and the Third Anglo-Ashanti War of 1873-74.
In 1867, after an internal power struggle, 30-year old Kofi Karikari become king of the Ashanti.
He had no time for the British or the tribes they protected on the coast.
As far as he was concerned these were traditional vassal territories of the ancient Ashanti empire.
In 1873, he sent a 12,000 strong army across the border to prove who was really in charge.
Major General Garnet Wolseley was dispatched to secure British interests, protect the local tribes and bring the Ashanti to heel.
He brought with him a group of 35 hand-picked officers - his fabled Ashanti Ring.
Many would become generals, such as John McNeill, Henry Brackenbury, John Maurice, Redvers Buller, William Butler, Evelyn Wood and George Pomeroy Colley.
Wolseley planned his campaign meticulously to fit in to the 3 month dry season.
Royal Engineers cut a route through the jungle to the border 70 miles away. En-route they constructed 7 fortified bases, containing barracks,, storage sheds, hospitals, water purifying and even bakeries, butchers and post offices.
The engineers also constructed 237 bridges during this campaign.
There was enough quinine for every soldier to be take daily during the campaign.
Wolseley also did away with the British soldiers traditional red tunics, providing uniforms of light grey home spun material. Much cooler and practical for this environment.
Wolseley’s army consisting of British troops from the 42nd regiment (the Black Watch), the Welch Fusiliers, the Rifle brigade, as well as Royal Marines and sailors advanced in January 1874.
They were joined by the 1st and 2nd West Indian Regiments and two regiments of local African recruits.
On the 31st January, he defeated the Ashanti army at the Battle of of Amoaful and 4 days later entered their capital as Kumasi.
Seizing anything of value, the British then blew up the royal palace and set fire to the city.
The third Anglo-Ashanti war was over.
Wolseley’s victory in the Ashanti War had cost just 18 men killed in battle and a further 55 dead from disease.
He had managed a campaign through dense jungle and had got his army in and out during the 3 month dry season.
Wolseley returned to a heros welcome in Britain.
Sir Garnet Wolseley was feted in the press as “Our Only General”.
His meticulous organisation led to a popular slang phrase in Victorian Britain: “All Sir Garnet” which meant everything was okay or sorted.
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0:00 Intro
0:54 The Ashanti Empire
2:42 British in West Africa
4:11 Prelude to War
6:55 General Garnet Wolseley
10:30 "All Sir Garnet"
13:09 Battle of Amoaful
15:37 Capture of Kumasi
17:00 Wolseley - "Our Only General"
18:30 The History Chap
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As a Ghanaian I was thought about this history in middle school, I am always proud of my ancestors, thank for that reminder, I appreciate it
You were TAUGHT and not THOUGHT
Thought is the past tense of Think
Taught is the past tense of Teach
@scipioafricanus9841 we knew what he meant this is not english class
@jordanhtiffirg1990 Of course, we all know what he meant 🙄!! English is Ghana's lingua franca. As such, it needs to be spoken correctly.
@scipioafricanus9841 This is the Internet not English class it was clearly a typo. Why are you so quick to defend the colonisers' language. I wonder if you would have the same energy if it was Twi 🙄
@jordanhtiffirg1990 Why mention Twi? Why not Ga, Frafra or Ewe? This is the problem I have with people of your ilk. There are over 60 languages in Ghana. WE SHOULD ALL SPEAK ENGLISH!!! That is our common language.
Even in those days the Ashantis could raise an Army up to 50000 men which was the same size of an European country's Army.
The Army formation which is now just a ceremonial titles were :
. Left wing command - Benkum Hene or Benkum Chief.
. Right wing command - Nifa Hene or Nifa Chief.
. Central wing command - Kontihene or Ko nti chief
. Back wing command - kyidom Hene
. Detective command - Asafo Hene - fight enemies from their back confusing them.
Thank you so much for this information.
Sir garnet Worsley used the fantes akyems GA Nigerians Gambians India and some Jamaicans as his army making over 50000 soldiers that outnumbered the Ashanti troops led by amankwatia the Bantamahene
Yes.they negotiated with the Dagbon king for annual supply of 1000 one thousand slaves in place of goods supplied to Dagbon
Truth they cld raise an amry of 200,000 worriors combined, they never send all of their army at a time
@zigibeats3689 you left out the ankobiahene
We need a movie of this great battle by the Ashanti tribe
Could be a good film.
Asante (Ashanti) is not a tribe, it was and is a confederacy where smaller kingdoms united to defend and fight one oppresive and wicked King of the Denkyira. Being an Asante is like being a Roman citizen but speaking different languages. Asanteman - means Asante state.
The King of Kwamang was elevated to be King of all the other Kings.
The four main powerful kings were then legislated to act as King whenever the King was absent or dead. These kings statuses were reduced to Paramouncies as accepted by the laws of constituting the newly formed kingdom which then started campaigns to conquer to unite neighbouring states. The newly formed kingdom believed uniting into a bigger power, they would be a formidable power. The Fantes (which means breakaway group) who were once part of the core people who made up the now formed Asantes did not want to be part of this Kingdom.
Note that the Fantes states and all other Akan states were one time under the Bono kingdom in what was Asante and parts of Ivory Coast. The capital was Bono-( Manso) - mean state. After the fall of Bono Kingdom a faction broke away, Fa (Part) - atew or ate ( away) to create Mankessim (Man)- means state. (Kessim) greater or bigger state
@@Kya1942 I’ve learnt something today
Particularly the epic battle of Feyiase that cut Denkyira to size and subsequently lifting the Kwaman confederacy to a kingdom status..
Yes it would be a great movie, pls raise an alert for it, pls@@TheHistoryChap
Thank you so much for this great video. As a Ghanaian, I've been waiting for it for a long time. In Ghanaian history the war is known as the "Sargranti " war, Sargranti being the corrupted version of Sir Garnet Wolsey whose name was quite a mouthful for the Ashantis to pronounce back then. Once again thank you.
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Does anything remain of the road Garnet built? Were forts simply abandoned?
Did any of Garnet's infrastructure become adopted for trade and communication?
Interesting to see the Asanti capital and palace drawings, Sub-Saharan African doesn't seem to have produced much enduring indigenous architecture.
Sar- for Sir, -Granti for Garnet. Thus, "Sargranti". That's one of the many things I like about West Africans, they always create a simplified version of a name. I love "Sakura" for a shaved-head!
There's alternative history that suggests the name Sagrenti was actually an anagram used by the spies of the Asante as a code to confuse the British while passing on info
@@AndyJarman I believe still exists and is now the Cape Coast to Kumasi highway. I don't know about the Forts though.
This proves that the Ashantis and the British history never lie. Asante y3 )man.
Lied about okomfo anokyi 's origins
Sure, man
Common history of waging wars on others n eventually going on head on collision in 3 wars. Is this something to be proud of ???
@@user-jt6sc3km5iyessir that was the story of the time. You fight wars or have regular clashes with other clans in order to survive.
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I think the Ashanti tribe was better prepared than Zulu but both fought for their freedom and showed the world that not even modern weapons can defeat the love for the motherland!!!! Loved the videos!!!
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The Zulu fought to establish their own candidate for KIng, and slaughtered more Africans than British.The Ashanti fought for the right to enslave other Africans, they fought for tribal dominance and empire. Be honest.
@@rowbearly6128 They did not fight to enslave others. They fought to defend their state.
@@NanaKNOwusu The Zulu state was an aggrrssive empire, they fought amongst themselves and raided and absorbed or wiped out other tribes. They forced conquered people to fight for them, marry their daughters off, they stole cattle and lands off others, The dynastic wars between diffferent candidates for King forced thousands of Zulu refugees into the British settlements. The zulu slaughtered the Swazi and expelled them form their lands.I suggest that you read a book or two on the subject.
@@rowbearly6128The Ashantis also did some of those things. They allowed their war prisoners to marry their women so that they could become part of their army. They also forced other conquered states to be part of their kingdom but they never colonized those states. Their conquered states were treated as allies. The only thing the Ashantis did not do was to fight among themselves. They had a very powerful system of administration. They believed in their object called the GOLDEN STOOL more than they believed in their kings and won't hesitate to sacrifice the lives of their leaders for it.
Yes for a presentation on the Ashanti Ring! Great clips on British history.
Thanks for your kind words. I will add the Ashanti Ring to my list.
Hello Bruce how are you. Hope you had a pleasant weekend 😊
@@TheHistoryChap superb
One of the Great KINGDOMS.Asante ye Oman
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@@TheHistoryChap You are always welcome,can you do recent 150 years Anniversary of the sagrante celebrated my the Ashanti’s where the British returned some of the artefacts they took from the Ashanti’s during the war?Thanks
It is worthy to note that although the Ashanti originally acquired guns from Europe. They were at this time, producing their own guns and gunpowder.
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Excellent work Mr. History Chap. History is my favorite subject and someone as gifted as yourself makes history more fascinating ! Thank you.
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Thanks once again Chris
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Excellent. As always.
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Thankyou for this video, this is the series that I've been waiting for.
Darren, I hope you enjoyed it?
@The History Chap certainly do, I would love another detailed video about Wasleys Gang.
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love your videos and the history I keep looking if you put any new ones up. I always find them really interesting learning about the history of the British empire
Always get one out a week. Trying my best to go for two a week but research and script writing seems to take far too long!
Yes Sir . another fine job. I am on the edge of my seat with your fine account of battle.
Very grateful. Thanks.
Always love the videos, you really are one of the best history channels on UA-cam and the best British history Channel by far
That's very kind of you. Thanks
Great video on a campaign which I knew nothing about! Very interesting and informative,thank you, not to mention entertaining as well!
Very kind of you, thanks
Good job, Sir! It is fascinating for the general to be named as the British most general after the defeat of the Ashantis. This shows how the Ashantis were considered by the british as a mighty kingdom and warriors.
The word Ashanti is a corrupted word by the white because they could not pronounced it. The correct word is “Asante”
Meaning because of War.
Before the first Asante King, the Asantes were small separate individual States who were defeated by the Denkyiras, and they all plan come together with one as their overall leader and vested with high authority and command because they wanted to defeat their enemy who defeats them in their seperate state and use them as slaves. “Osa” in the Twi Language is War (Singular).
The plura is called “Asa” meaning Wars. “nti” means because of.
So they join together to fight their enemy to defeat the Denkyiras who alway pound on them and captured them and use them to serve their Kingdom.
So let’s come together because of the wars to defeat any enemy that try to fight us. So they got the name of the tribe from the purpose of their togetherness.
Hence “ASA + NTE” meaning “BECAUSE OF + WARS”. Hence ASANTE”
But before then they were numerous individual Akan States and cll look clans Which included state like Kokofu, Bekwei, Mampong, Ejisu, Juaben, Oyokuo,Nsuta, and many more with one superior and spiritual Leader called Otumfour Osei Tutu the first, who was chosen through traditional and customary ritual process by their spiritual high Priest and they all vested in King their authority and powers whom they take command from him and have final say in every decision after deliberation by numerous paramount chiefs representing their various state exactly like the parliamentary system with Sepeaker of parliament at their Leader. who now came together to wage a war against any common enemy that try to attack them and this was maintain and fought numerous battle Yes the Ashantis were indeed a torn in the flesh for the British.
Has it not been the great and mighty warrior of the Ashantis the British would have captured and wipe off all the natural resources of Ghana and left to their faith.
The intervention of the Ashanti really prevented the British from over exploiting Ghanaians and other West African Countries because left to the other tribes alone, the British considered them easy to deceive, manipulate, lure them and force them obey any reasonable wishes because they considered themselves inferior and subordinate before the British and through that the British would have capitalized on that to loot and exploit them for the benefit of Europe mainly Britain but Ashantis always see themselves as equals to the British and would never allow the British to under rate them. They always demand equality and mutual respect which any failure always leads to War.
The Ashantis expanded their kingdom so much that, they captured and conquered many state in west Africa
They conquered so many states and tribes even within their own Akan tribes that they expanded their empire beyond the present day Ghana. At the peak of Ashanti wars, the total Land size of the Ashanti Empire was three (3X) times the size of present day Ghana.
They Ashanti spread their tentacles to Ivory Coast at the West, Benin and Togo to the East, Some part of Butkina Faso to the north of present day Ghana.
Today we have over 7millions population of Ashanti tribes in Ivory Coast called the Bawule tribe s out of which two Ivoriran Presidents have emerge from. Preside Konan Berden and Preside Ofo Boayen.
Today, due to the mightiest strength and warrior character of Ashantis to fight and rule over almost every tribe in Ghana except few, the effect of their fight against many tribe in Ghana as left some trace in every corner of the country. Many Non Akan region has an Asante name originated from their past influence and encounter with Ashantis,.
About close to 90% of the total population speaks and understand Twi which is the language of the Ashantis. They are the most influential tribe in the country in area of Business entrepreneurs, entertainment industry like movies, music, media station, Traditional culture and traditional artisan display. Kente cloth originated from them, Adinkra symbol majority from them, beautiful cultural display, the hub of cultural and traditional display of very rich culture and traditional display. Exhibition of real chieftaincy Leadership and exhibition of authority and powder from a hierarchical flow and flow of respect and command.
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As ever Chris, a wonderful presentation! Very interesting video. Keep up the good work.
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"Find a few more details you haven't heard before"- EVERYTHING in this video I've never heard before. Thanks again for an excellent and very entertaining short documentary, as always. Your YT channel is for sure one of my favourites on YT.
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Thanks Chris, yet another excellent video, thanks so much for the effort you put into them, Cheers
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@@TheHistoryChapI will love to hear a bit of history about the war of the Golden Stool or as my people will say the "Yaa Asantewaa war". I am native of Ejisu where Queen Yaa Asantewaa who led the war was the Queen mother.
Excellent video Chris. A video on the Ashanti ring would be great! Thanks!
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Thank you for your hard work and enthusiastic presentation.I ,very much,enjoy how you clarify the very complex geopolitics of history seemingly without undue bias .History based on fact rather than opinion is so much more interesting.Anyway thanks again.
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Thanks for this history, Mr. CHRIS
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Great really enjoyed that. Well presented. Thank you :)
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I truly enjoy your videos and I find them to be both informative and fascinating 👍
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Sad that I learned about the Sagrenti ( How the Ashantis pronounced Sir Garnet Worseley) War in school but everything here is new to me. You bring everything to life. Thanks sir!
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you MR History Chap make great videos full of information! Thanks
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Thank you so much. Amazing story 👏
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Excellent video thank you!
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Thanks for this video. You’re a great video creator.
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very interesting... cleared up my questions about the Ashanti wars
including the Black Watch being significant there
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Splendid work. Thank you for helping a Yank learn a little more about the history of the Motherland. I appreciate it. And I will indeed subscribe. Bravo, sir.
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Another most excellent video!
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Super stuff!
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for covering this under reported series of campaigns.
You have a knack for the obscure.
Is is a knack or a curse 😀
@@TheHistoryChap embrace your originality.
I am a big fan of this channel, I've studied military history for 50 years and I learn new things from you almost every video.
Please cover the 18th century Burmese campaigns and explain how Belize became British.
Cheers from New England!
Thank you for this video (i requested a video on the Ashanti wars some time ago), it was worth the wait.
Here's hoping for a future presentation on the Ashanti Ring.
Ashanti Ring will be coming soon.
This is amazing history of a war that I had never knew about. Thank you for posting and teaching about this interesting history
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Great work Mr. Chris. We need more of this. How I wish you would collaborate with Hollywood to bring out a nice movie with this great history.
How is this history great. He was celebrating his ancestors for his ancestors for their role in destroy our nation and continent and you are here praising him. Do you know the damage these stories do on us as Africans. We should never encourage these things, their psychological weapons used to undermine us. They tell us they were and are superior over us. They go on to say some of us are better than others. They are sowing the seeds of discrimination and tribalism in us. We were one Africa before they came to imaginary divide us through their schemes.
Chaley you guys should wake up.
I will never subscribe to this. They have realised we are waking up so they are introducing these things to damage our new generation.
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Fantastic presentation and narration of history
Many thanks!
Splendid video indeed! And yes please, a video about the Ashanti ring.
Ok. Will crack on with a video about the Ashanti Ring.
@@TheHistoryChap splendid! Thank you very much. Looking forward
Awesome storytelling again Chris. Thanks ever so much. Enjoyed that.
Thank you for watching.
Thanks good video.
My pleasure
I've really enjoyed history like never before i wish to see you one days when I visit my relatives in the uk
It would be very nice to meet up with you
Excellent thanks 👏
Thanks for watching and also for commenting.
Well done as always
Take care 🙂
Thank you! Cheers!
@@TheHistoryChap I had never heard of this war or battle until now
Cheers 🙂
Great presentation as always, One thing you forgot to mention was the British troops had a great firepower advantage over the Ashanti with their breech loading snider enfield rifles. The last major campaign it was carried by British troops, although it carried on seeing long service with Indian and Dominion forces .
John, thanks for sharing that information about the Snider Enfield rifles.
Nice to know the British used the Snider Enfield on this campaign. I consider it better than the prone to fouling Martini Henry.
@@nathanappleby5342 Apparently according to what I have read, Wolseley was far sighted enough to equip all the British regiments with the shorter two band sniders because they were less of an encumbrance in the jungle, like a 19th century no.5 carbine almost .
Impressive. A very interesting video and an elevation in my estimation of Wolseley. Thank you for the video.
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Great subject and fantastic insight. Thank you.
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As usual an indepth explication . Your energy inspires my imagination to see history . Long live the King
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Another fantastic period and video 👌 Yes to another on the famous ring would be great
Ok. I will add the Ashanti Ring to my list of future projects
@@TheHistoryChap much appreciated
I was very impressed with the General Wolseley and his diligence to sticking to his timetables. Proof that the military does not always have to be a fustercluck! I have never heard of the Ashanti War but really enjoyed learning about it.
Glad you liked it.
Fustercluck, that's a new one. Wolseley truly was a master strategist and logistician. One correction, at the time of the campaign, Wolseley was a colonel and received his major general's brevet after he won the campaign.
@@nathanappleby5342 It is an old military acronym from long ago, just have to switch out the f and c, you should get it real quick. LOL 😆 🤣 😂 Just like DILLIGAF or FUBAR!
FLUSTEREDCUCK
The King Osei Tutu II, this month is celebrating 150 years of the Sir, Garnet Wolseley war in the kingdom. Some of the golden artifacts that was looted and stolen during the war is being brought back by the British museums.
It was a very sad and devastating situation for the Ashanti’s. They never called for the war, they never faulted the British, they took the war to their door step because they saw their kingdom was growing stronger and mighty and was one of the riches kingdoms in Africa at that time. The amount of gold that was looted from the kingdom today is worth over 2 billion pound sterling. The British wanted the gold and wanted no other kingdom to survive apart from the British Monarchy.
This year is a massive remembrance of the atrocities that the kingdom suffered and many European have come to Ghana and Ashanti to learn about their rich culture. I’m a citizen of Ghana and from the Ashanti kingdom. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need any further clarification on Ashanti culture and history.
Fantastic, a great channel. Many thanks _D Mullins
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Good show thank you
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Thanks for another interesting and informative video. I'd be interested to see more about the ring and also the final Ashanti War.
Thanks for watching and I will add both those topics to my list. Make sure you subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss them
History are series of lies agreed upon @@TheHistoryChap
Please more. Thank you
Plenty more on the way
Yes, please. Continue on with presenting the Ashanti Ring ... Let's see how these gents fared in history.
They have mixed success, a bit like a band of football managers!
Great video and very interesting, thank you and stay well.
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Thanks for covering the Ashanti Wars.and Sir Garnet Worsley. And the ' Ashanti Ring'.
I recall the Elcho bayonet was developed for this campaign.
Didn’t know that about the bayonet. Thanks for sharing
Yes do a video on the Ashanti ring.A excellent video
Ok. I will add it to my list and move it up the production line.
Thank you for the history
G;lad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for this great post about my people. I am proud to part of this Kingdom.
Just to add to this for viewers to know more, i am re-posting a comment i made under one viewers post for people to learn more about my people.
Asante (Ashanti) is not a tribe, it was and is a confederacy where smaller kingdoms united to defend and fight one oppresive and wicked King of the Denkyira. Being an Asante is like being a Roman citizen but speaking different languages
The King of Kwamang was elevated to be King of all the other Kings.
The four main powerful kings were then legislated to act as King whenever the King was absent or dead. These kings statuses were reduced to Paramouncies as accepted by the laws of constituting the newly formed kingdom which then started campaigns to conquer neighbouring states.
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Brilliant!!!
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The Asantes were fighting on 3 fronts, the Adinkra War, and the Gareba War then the British took advantage and came from the south with the help of some states who wanted to break away from the empire.
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Yes, do a video on Wolseley's Gang. Great video as all your videos are.
Very kind of you, thanks
Great video! Hope to hear about the campaigns in 1896 and 1900.
They are on the list.
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I heard the term Ashanti before in reggae lyrics and always wondered the origin of the word\people. Now I know!
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Awesome history lesson thanks
thanks, glad you enjoyed my video
Thanks old chap
My pleasure. With regard to your other comment, it must be a spooky coincidence. Never even heard of the other channel.
Great video, I knew nothing of our West African campaigns, keep up the good work!
The Zulus tend to hog the limelight
Great video! I've seen in the background on your bookshelf in several episodes the book "Queen Victoria's Little Wars", I'm going to give it a go.
It's a good read. You can get through Amazon.
A very good book, well worth reading
Great book, I've read it myself
Thanks for you work in these histories not taught in schools.
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Another good feature, let them roll on.
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Great video. Ashanti originally is Asante which means "Because of war". You should please do a video about the Ashanti Empire from her rise and fall to her present day.
Thanks for watching my video. And thank you as well for your suggestion. At the moment. I am trying to focus on British history, but at some stage I might very well start telling the stories of other nations too.
Thank you Chris. Enlightened by a dim patch in my foresight.
Very welcome
Thanks for the story. Excellently told. If time permits, please tell what became of Ashanti later.
I will cover that in the future.
Most enjoyable.
Thank you.
Well told Chris, I agree the Ashanti Ring would make a great story too.
On my list. Have spent this morning trying to plan my forthcoming video schedule
Thank you so much . A lot of people on UA-cam do not explain our history right but you did . Thanks . But I know this is British point of view if the war . But all what you said was fact .
Thanks for your kind words.
Once again great content and a story of our past. How many times have you mentioned the 42nd and the Rifle Bde, in all of your vids you have share to us..... Cheers Chris once again.
They do seem to pop up everywhere!
I really enjoyed this video ! thank you for covering this part of history one of the many battles of the British, Would you mind taking a gander at the Ekumekwu 30 year war and the Anglo-Aro war fought between the Igbos of Nigeria and the British, would make for a very interesting video, once again thank you!
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Well done, Chris! I look forward to learning in depth on the Wolseley ring. I learned details about this campaign I hadn't learned of before. Funny thing is, at the time of the campaign, Wolseley was commanding thousands of soldiers whilst he was a brevet colonel and held the substantive rank of major. Looking at it from a certain angle, it's weird seeing a major commanding thousands of soldiers. But then again, Wolseley was of exceptional military ability. When it comes to the 19th century British rank system, it is fascinating when the ranks were substantive, brevet, and local.
What was interesting is that he never actually commanded an army the size of the ones many generals commanded in Ww1 & WW2….or the Franco-Prussian war for that matter.
@@TheHistoryChap of course he didn't. The British Army never fielded such a large force during his active career.
Im loving the content i must have watched hours of your videos by now, Please could you do a separate video on Redvers Buller? He is a very unknown yet interesting character in our great nations history 👏🏻 🇬🇧❤️
Great idea. I will add him to my list
@@TheHistoryChap thank you 😊
Interesting stuff man. I just watched your pirate white slave vid….so I’ve subbed
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Impressive rendition of the strategies under pinning the war
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Yes please Chris, a piece on the Ashanti ring would be very interesting.
Also how about a series on various key parts of “The Great Game” 🤔
The Great Game would be brill. I will add to my list. Thanks for the suggestion
@@TheHistoryChap excellent I’ll look forward to that “Game” kicking off 😉. Some fascinating topics to cover about the activities around the Northwest Frontier.
Excellent work. Can you do one on the punitive expedition to benin and Lugard's expedition to Sokoto
Thanks for your suggestion, will add it to my list.
Oh boy, this is one of the subjects I really want to know about. Thank you soooo much. The Ashanti Ring sounds like George Marshall's little book of officers (of course, Marshall had a few clunkers in his book), so it would be an interesting comparison.
Maybe I need to do a video about who had the better book; Wolseley or Marshall?
@@TheHistoryChap I was thinking mostly of Fredendall, but didn't you mention some of the Ashanti Ring coming up short in combat? I could be thinking of something else, though; the neurons ain't what they used to be.
Yes, Chris. I enjoyed it very much, thanks. 😊
My father was in The Gold Coast from 1945 to '47 as part of the Royal West African Frontier Force. He used to take recruitment parties out into the bush to enlist men to the colours. But, as he related, there wasn't a whole lot to do besides drink and catch malaria which plagued him every summer afterwards. Bottle-openers are still referred to in our family as Takoradi Spanners...
thanks for sharing. I like how stories from history relate to our current lives.
My father in Northern Nigeria 1940 to 1944 then Burma with Nigeria Regiment of RWAFF. Then, back there as Colonial Administrator (made sense as he spoke Hausa, knew the region and individuals and no work left for Burma vaterans) until 1961. We stayed after independence. Both we and the Nigerian government wanted him to stay, but all 4 grandparents were getting old and frail by then.
I've since got to know a few Ghanaians who had fathers and uncles in RWAFF. Very resentful. British thought they were getting volunteers but worked through local chiefs. Local chiefs competed to look good to the British (and get bonus payments). They simply ordered village members to go, "I want volunteers - you, you, and you..."
TAKORADI is my home city in Ghana.
I was born in Takoradi
Thank you, this was very interesting. I know some African history, having lectured on the Zulus while on a cruise ship from Muscat to Cape Town, and studied the continent for the geography classes I teach. In fact my wife's uncle, Earl Phillips, was in 1961 the first U.S. history professor to teach about the continent! (He did his doctorate in Nigeria.) But this was a totally new topic for me; I had heard of the Dahomey War that France fought, but was unaware of what happened next door in the Gold Coast. And what always gets me is that wonderful term "Protectorate", a status people had to live in whether or not they wanted to "buy" it. The Mafia may have learned something from the British Empire!
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Dahomey fought Ashanti and was defeated by Ashanti.
@andrewsagyemangopoku9667 your information is completely incorrect. Dahomey fighting on behalf of Akyem, completely and resoundly defeated Asante.
VERY INTERESTING !!!.
Glad you think so!
Superb and thank you! I am certain Wellington himself would have approved of Wolseleys planning, something he himself was a master of.
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Proud Ashanti. Our fall led to the colonization of West Africa.
Your fall led to the collapse of modern day Ghana alone. Stop capping.
You were one of the last to annexed. Ie much of West Africa had already been colonised before Asante was annexed. So no, your fall didn't lead to the colonisation of West Africa. Learn the timelines.
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Garnet Wolsey was and is a true firebrand. Just the type of officer needed at the right time and the right place . Kudos Sir! And yes I am smiling as I write to give praise to a brilliant bit of work.
Probably Wolseley at his very best
@@TheHistoryChap without a doubt Sir!
An Ashanti here, with open wound of colonialism 😢
Wolseley won because they had better ammunition
Another fantastic video! I wonder how Sir Garnet would have faired fighting a mechanised army? Would love to hear more about Garnet's Ashanti ring. 👍
Yes, that is a good question.
Дякую!!!!!!
My pleasure
"Something like a reformed smoker" had me in stitches 😆😆
Glad you thought it was funny. There's bound to be someone who is indignant out there too!
@@TheHistoryChap Speaking as a chain smoker, myself, I know the type! HAHA!
Good word
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for this video of this subject, for myself I had very little idea that Jamaicans or West Indians fought within the regular British army as a regiment & it gives me great pride for those troops to have fought against the practice of slavery , if I may ask had there been any other campaigns that Jamaican / West Indian troops fought with the regular British troops before the First World War , I look forward to your reply, thank you
Not exaclty sure. I know that West Indian troops served throughout Britain's west African colonies until just before WW1.
You've spiked my interest in another piece of research.
Maybe i should do a video about the West India Regiment?
@@TheHistoryChap thank you for your reply, as my late father had informed are family that his great uncle had served in the First World War & had acquired land after he had returned from Europe and shared it with my grandfather, as a youngster it filled me with pride that he risked his life to keep others free