The Ashantee War:--"Special Service"
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Title
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The Ashantee War:--"Special Service"
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Artist
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Orlando Norie
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First Exhibited Date
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1874
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Lent By
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H. Cooper, Esq
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Catalog Number
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5
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Catalog Page
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2
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Catalog Description
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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.