Note 210 — THE ASHANTEE WAR. 1873–74.
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“Nothing was left us but to leave marks of our power or vengeance, which would long be remembered. No more utterly atrocious Government than that which has thus, perhaps fallen, ever existed on the face of the earth. Their capital was a charnel-house, their religion a combination of cruelty and treachery, their policy the natural outcome of their religion.”—Despatch of Sir G. Wolseley to Lord Kimberley.