Picture No | 10221733 |
Date | 1873 |
Description | Cape Coast Castle and forts 1873 |
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Cape Coast Castle was the was the seat of British colonialism upto the time of the 2nd Ashanti War. In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony. Shortly thereafter, the British moved their administrative capital from Cape Coast to Accra. The main factors in this decision were Accra's drier climate relative to Cape Coast.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 6 December 1873. page 552 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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