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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mber were among the wounded. The totalnumber of deaths did not exceed twenty. Onthe side of the Ashantis no accurate record wasobtained of the number who fell. It is theircustom always to carry off the killed andwounded, unless hotly pressed ; and therefore,until the last rush of the Black Watch intoAmoaful, they had ample-time to follow their AMOAFUL. 221 usual custom. Nevertheless, the number ofdead found was very large, and the lowest calcu-lation placed their loss at 2,000. Among thesewas Amnion Quatia, the general-in-chief of theAshantis, and Aboo, one of the six great tribu-tary kings of Ashanti. The Ashantis foughtwith extraordinary pluck and resolution ; they, to the British for their long endurance ot aterrific fire from unseen foes, by the manner inwhich they fought under conditions so absolutelynovel to them, and for the unwavering resolutionwith which they won their way through thebush and finally defeated a foe of ten times theirown numerical force. The victory of Amoaful
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*eacii little rise was held oe.^tinately by theenemy (^ 218). indeed, enormously outnumbered the littleBritish force, and their position was admirablyadapted for their peculiar method of fighting.But, on the other hand, they were wretchedlyarmed, and their old and worn-out muskets werepoor weapons indeed compared with the breech-loaders of the whites, who had, in addition, theassistance of their guns and rocket tubes. Great credit was due to both sides : to theAshantis for their obstinate and long-continueddefence, and for the vigour with which, whentheir centre was penetrated, they strove to re-deem the day by their flank attack upon us ; virtually decided the result of the campaign, foralthough the Ashantis fought again on the otherside of the river Dab, the terrible punishmentinflicted upon them at Amoaful had greatlyreduced their spirit ; nevertheless, they foughtstoutlv. On this occasion the Bonny men led the ad-vance up the path beyond the river, and beforethey had gone half a m

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