3-065-650 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Ashantee War: fixing telegraph wires on the road to the Prah - from a sketch by our special artist, 1874. British soldiers in West Africa: 'Royal Engineers fixing the electric telegraph wires along the line to Prah-su. Their greatest labour is to cut down the trees and clear away the brushwood in the dense forest of that tropical clime'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.