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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE DESPATCH TO THE GOLD COAST OF THE EXPEDITIONS UNDER CAPTAIN GLOVER AND SIR GARNET WOLSELET — INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT. On the receipt of the news that the Ashantis had actually attacked Elmina, her Majesty's Government appear to have considered that the time had arrived for more decisive measures, such as would relieve the Protectorate from the presence of the enemy, and restore that prestige which we had undoubtedly lost by our inability to drive the enemy from the neighbourhood of our forts, or indeed to do more than protect those forts and the ground immediately surrounding them. In July, Commander John Glover, E.N., who had formerly served as Administrator of the Government at Lagos, and whose influence with the native tribes and faculty for making them fight were well known, conceived and brought forward a proposal " to use the tribes of the eastern district of the Protectorate, in order to cause a diversion in the rear of the Ashanti army, and at the same time to threaten Coomassie." In a letter dated July 30, Captain Glover offered his services to carry out this proposal, pointing out his special qualifications for the service. He had met and defeated the Ashantis in action in 18 70; he had acquired the confidence of the eastern tribes of the Protectorate;he could enlist a hundred Houssas, where any one except himself would raise but five ; numbers of Houssas were only waiting his arrival to enlist; and he felt confident that he could do good service to her Majesty's Government as Commissioner to the eastern tribes of the Protectorate. The particulars of the plan were submitted to his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief. Lord Kimberley having expressed his disposition to accept the offer, Captain Glover gave further...