Cities

Title:
Burning of Kumasi

Note:
Ashanti people abandonned city of Kumasi and it was burned by the British

Note:
From a drawing by Melton Prior, special artist in Ashantee of the ‘Illustrated London News.’

Source: 
Stanley, Henry M. 1874. Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa. New York: Harper & Bros, between pgs.242-243. Book at Archives.org

Subject:
Cities - Coomassie - Burning - British - Fire