The Gold Coast and the War
Author | : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wendell Patrick Holbrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Prestwood Lucas (Sir).) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. Kojo Addae |
Publisher | : Sedco Publishing |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This book seeks to tell the story of the parts played by the key institution of Achimota College, in the Gold Coast, now Ghana, during the Second World War. Achimota College was the headquarters of the West Africa command, from where the Royal West African frontier force was organised. Secondly, British resident ministers, sent to the Gold Coast by Churchill's government to coordinate the war effort in West Africa, had their offices at Achimota. Achimota was also a key educational institution in West Africa, and led to the establishment of the University College of the Gold Coast at Achimota in 1948.
Author | : Wendell P. Holbrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gold Coast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nancy Ellen Lawler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Gold Coast became important to the Allied war effort in WWII, necessitating the creation of elaborate propaganda and espionage networks, the activities of which ranged from rumor-mongering to smuggling and sabotage.
Author | : GOLD COAST. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. G. Lovell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Ashantee war, 1873-1874 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert B. Edgerton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1451603738 |
For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king's palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the "golden stool," the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.