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Identifier: europeinafricain01lati (find matches)
Title: Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in factwas that kingdom itself. Several times the Santees had come into colHsion withthe Enghsh. Once in 1S24, when they had the satisfactionof massacring an English army one thousand strong, andcarrying off the skull of its general to the Kings treasure-house at Coomassie, where it was mounted with gold andbrought forth as a drinking cup for king and chiefs ongreat occasions. In 1833 another dispute occurred. Somefugitive slaves, belonging to the King of Ashantee, had takenrefuge at Cape Coast Castle, under the protection of itsgovernor Captain MacLean, husband of Miss Letitia Eliza-beth Landon, whose writings we all know as those of L. E. L.-^ 1 Captain MacLean was at one time popularly supposed to havemurdered his wife, or to have driven her to commit suicide. The poorpoetess died most probably of a wrong dose of medicine, which sheswallowed when meaning only to take an anodyne. It is a melan-choly story of an ill-assorted marriage, but no blame seems justly dueto Captain MacLean.
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CETVIVAYO. ENGLANDS LITTLE WARS. 323 The dispute became so warm when the king insisted thatthe escaped wretches should be given up to his vengeance,that Captain MacLean organized an expedition into theAshantee country, where fever and dysentery so attackedthe troops that they died off like flies, and the best attain-able peace had to be patched up. In 1872 the Dutch ceded Elmina and several other set-tlements they had upon the coast to the English. TheDutch had always paid some pension or tribute to theAshantee king; this the English refused to continue. KingCoffee then menaced the English with hostilities, andattacked the Fantees, who were under English protection.An army was sent out to punish and put him down. It waslargely composed of black regiments from the West Indies,under the command of English officers. The general inchief was Sir Garnet Wolseley, who, in 1870, had distin-guished himself in a campaign in Manitoba. In the Ashantee army, said Sir Garnet, speaking of thecampaig

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