Former fortified colonial trading post in Ghana

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Cape Coast Castle, Ghana: a blind man is led through the street by a boy. Wood engraving by J.J.

Ashanti War, Ghana, 1874: wounded British soldiers at Cape Coast, Ghana, lying on litters, being loaded on to boats for transport to hospital ships. Wood engraving after Melton Prior.

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Cape Coast Castle

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Ashanti War, Ghana, 1874: wounded British soldiers at Cape Coast, Ghana, lying on litters, being loaded on to boats for transport to hospital ships. Wood engraving after Melton Prior.

Cape Coast Castle, Ghana: a blind man is led through the street by a boy. Wood engraving by J.J.