Relationship Gallery

Fante Soldiers serving with the British against the Ashanti

Soldiers from the Fante tribe who served under the British in their war against the Ashanti empire on 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 did this with the help of their alliances with tribes such as the Fante who were enemies of the Ashanti

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Cartoon, Humble Pie (Gladstone and San Juan Island)

Cartoon, Humble Pie -- a satirical comment on a government failure regarding a boundary dispute between the UK and USA over the island of San Juan in the Pacific North-West. The German Emperor had acted as arbitrator and decided in favour of the American border preference, much to the annoyance of Canada. There had already been an earlier failure (though it was part of the same issue), which leads John Bull to complain to head waiter Gladstone that he is being served humble pie two days running. Date: 1872

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Cartoon, Bismarck and Gambetta

Cartoon, Bismarck and Gambetta. Leon Gambetta, French statesman, is looking for some stolen property (Alsace and Lorraine), which Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor, is hiding behind his back. A comment on the difficult relationship following the Franco-Prussian War, when France had been forced to surrender territory to Germany.
1880

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