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56: General Sir Garnet Wolseley's Ashanti Ring
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The Ashanti Ring were a group of talented British army officers gathered together by general Sir Garnet Wolseley for the Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873.
They were, in many ways, to be the fore runner of a General Staff in the Victorian British Army.
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General Wolseley's Ashanti Ring of Officers (sometimes called the Africa Ring or the Wolseley Gang) was never a fixed group of officers. it's membership was fluid depending upon Wolseley's requirements.
Nevertheless a core group of about a dozen officers tended to congregate around Wolseley in his…
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