The Ashantee War: paying a West India regiment, from a sketch by our special artist, 1874. Creator: Jenkin. # 3065724

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The Ashantee War: paying a West India regiment, from a sketch by our special artist, 1874. Third Anglo-Ashanti War. The British Army in West Africa. Illustration depicting '...the discipline and treatment of negro troops...: the paying of a West India regiment: the officer sits, with the pay-list end the little rolls of money, while the sergeant calls out the men's names. He sometimes has to mention the reason why a deduction from the pay is to be made for some fault. In such case it is amusing to see the dejected looks of the delinquents, compared with the others' cheerful faces. These men are regular soldiers, and not bad soldiers either; they are usually stationed at Sierra Leone and Cape Coast Castle'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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