SUPERB ORIGINAL PAIR VICTORIA ASHANTEE COOMASSIE 1873-74 LSGC MEDAL TO 42ND FOOT

SUPERB ORIGINAL PAIR VICTORIA ASHANTEE COOMASSIE 1873-74 LSGC MEDAL TO 42ND FOOT (image 1/4)
SUPERB ORIGINAL PAIR VICTORIA ASHANTEE COOMASSIE 1873-74 LSGC MEDAL TO 42ND FOOT (image 2/4)
SUPERB ORIGINAL PAIR VICTORIA ASHANTEE COOMASSIE 1873-74 LSGC MEDAL TO 42ND FOOT (image 3/4)
SUPERB ORIGINAL PAIR VICTORIA ASHANTEE COOMASSIE 1873-74 LSGC MEDAL TO 42ND FOOT (image 4/4)
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SUPERB ORIGINAL PAIR VICTORIAN ASHANTEE COOMASSIE 1873-74 & LSGC MEDAL TO 42ND FOOT ( The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot The Black Watch.) Both medals are in great condition and as a pair make them extra special and much saught after Ashantee Medal 1873 - 74 Instituted on the 1st June 1874 for award to British, Colonial and allied native forces deployed against the army of the Ashanti King Koffee Kalkalli, which was threatening the British Gold Coast Protectorate. As the C-in-C of the main British operations, Sir Garnet Wolseley put it : "An invading army of Ashantis numbering between twenty and thirty thousand men, having overrun the Fanti territory, has occupied threatening positions within an easy march of Her Majesty's Forts at Elmina and Cape Coast Castle. The country is filled with alarms of intended attacks upon our settlements ; public confidence in us is at a very low ebb, every movement on our part is known to the enemy, regarding whose intentions, movements, numbers, or even exact position, little information is possessed by our authorities." A few minor actions took place in the latter half of 1873 against the Ashanti that had crossed the Prah river into British controlled territory. In early 1874 after a build up of forces a campaign was launched to drive back and punish the Ashanti. The coup de grâce was read more
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