3-065-698 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Ashantee War: sharpening cutlasses in the camp at Prah-Su, from a sketch by our special artist, 1874. Third Anglo-Ashanti War, the British Army in West Africa: '...a number of our own countrymen in the camp at Prahsu, sailors of the Naval Brigade and Royal Marines, employed at the grindstones and portable forge in sharpening their cutlasses to be ready for actual fighting'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.