The Ashanti (Asante) War of 1873-74, reported on by famous war correspondents such as Henry Morton Stanley and G.A. Henty, was seen as a model campaign. It was won at modest cost in expenditure and lives and was instrumental in the confident projection of British military power across the Empire. It also made a household name of Wolseley - Gilbert and Sullivan's `very model of a modern Major General'. Wolseley's previously unpublished campaign journal and correspondence proved a rich and compelling account of the problems of Victorian campaigning, as well as new insight into the complex character of `our only General'.
