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| Picture No | 10221768 |
| Date | 1874 |
| Description | Water supply to Cape Coast Castle, 1874 |
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The water supply to Cape Coast Castle, headquarters of the British in the Gold Coast. 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 on 24 July 1874. They then moved their administrative capital from Cape Coast Castle to Accra.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 24 January 1874. page 76, by Charles Robinson. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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