The Ashantee War:--"Special Service"
- Title
- The Ashantee War:--"Special Service"
- Artist
- Orlando Norie
- First Exhibited Date
- 1874
- Lent By
- H. Cooper, Esq
- Catalog Number
- 5
- Catalog Page
- 2
- Catalog Description
- Officers were sent to all the tribes of the protectorate to raise men, collect carriers, and try and rouse our so-called "native allies" to action. As a rule they were well received, and everything was promised, though nothing was done. This sketch represents the arrival of English officers at a village on the Amissa, which river was crossed in a canoe made of the hollowed trunk of a tree.