fantees

Updated: September 27, 2025

The Ashantees, coming none knew exactly whence, flung themselves upon the Fantees, and, after horrible massacres, in 1811 and 1816, established themselves in the whole of the country between the Kong mountains and the sea. As a necessary result, this led to a disturbance in the relations between the Fantees and the English, who owned some factories and counting-houses on the coast.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century