EDITOR'S NOTE: Rather than presenting second and third "rehashes" of historical treatises of various periods, The Courier will give detailed bibliographies such as this. Suggestions of subject matter are solicited. GENERAL J. K. Fynn, "Ghana-Asante (Ashanti)" in Crowder (ed.), West African Resistance, N. Y. & London, 1971 & 1978. A. Haywood & F. A. S. Clark, The History of the West African Field Force, London, 1964. R. S. Smith, Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa, London,1976. Wilks, Asante in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, 1975. EARLY PERIOD T. E. Bowdich, Mission From Cape Coast Castle to Ashante, London, 1819 (Frank Cass reprint). D. Coombes, The Gold Coast, Britain and the Netherlands, 1850-1874, London, 1963. A. W. Lawrence, Fortified Trade Posts. The English in West Africa 1645-1822, London, 1963. G. E. Metcalfe, MacLean of the Gold Coast, London, 1962. H. J. Ricketts, Narrative of the Ashantee War, London, 1831 (Frank Cass reprint). 1874 PERIOD F. Boyle, Through Fanteeland to Coomassie, London, 1874. H. Brackenbury, The Ashanti War, London 1874 (Frank Cass reprint). W. F. Butler, Akim-Foo: The History of a Failure, London, 1876. J. Keegan, "The Ashanti Campaign, 1873-1874", in Bond (ed.), Victorian Military Campaigns, London, 1967. H. M. Stanley, Coomassie and Magdala, N. Y., 1874. 1896 PERIOD R. S. Baden-Powell, The Downfall of Prempeh, London, 1896. B. Burleigh, Two Campaigns: Madagascar and Ashantee, London, 1896. G. C. Musgrave, To Kumasi with Scott, London, 1896. W. Tordoff, Ashanti Under the Prempehs, 1888-1936, London, 1965. 1900 PERIOD C. H. Armitage & A. F. Montanaro, The Ashanti Campaign of 1900, London, 1901. H. C. Biss, The Relief of Kumasi, London, 1901. W. M. Hall, The Great Drama of Kumasi, London, 1939. H. Moyse-Bartlett, The King's African Rifles (Chapter 2 for the Central African Rifles' part in the campaign). Sir J. Willcocks, From Kabul to Kumassi. London, 1904. Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. 1 #3 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1979 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com