1873 were sent to Garnet Joseph Wolseley to west Africa, in order to fight against the Ashanti kingdom. It reached Africa with 35 officers. These men, with whose assistance it developed an army from natives and which capital of the Ashanti conquered, Wolseley before had selected. They were called later than the Ashanti ring or Wolseley ring and were considered particularly talentiert. The group attained an important influence on the viktorianische British Army by mutual support and took over up to the end of the century the prominent positions. The men participated in most British campaigns of this time (Zulukrieg, occupation of Egypt, Mahdi rebellion, Burenkrieg). Two members of the ring achieved the highest British rank field marshal: Garnet Joseph Wolseley and Evelyn Wood. Three of the men (Wood, McNeill, Buller) became with the Victoriakreuz, which highest honor of Great Britain for outstanding bravery in the face of the enemy excellently, who was lent in British history only to 1.350 men.

To the Ashanti ring belonged among other things (in each case with their highest rank and command):

• Field marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, commander in chief of the British army
• Field marshal Evelyn Wood, commander range south
• General talking verse Buller, commander in chief of the British troops in the Burenkrieg
• General Baker Creed Russell, commander of the Southern District
• General Henry Brackenbury, Director general OF Ordnance in the war Ministry
• General Greaves
• General John McNeill, brigade commander in the Sudan
• Lieutenant general William Francis Butler, commander of the garrison Aldershot
• Lieutenant general John Plumptre Carr Glyn, commander of the Eastern District
• Major general John Frederick Maurice
• Major general Hugh McCalmont
• Major general Herbert Stewart, commander of a department in the Mahdi rebellion
• Brigadier General George Pomeroy Colley, High Commissioner and commander in chief South Africa
• Colonel Cromer Ashburnham, aide of the queen
• Frederick Charles Denison

Literature

• Leigh Maxwell: The Ashanti ring: Sir Garnet Wolseley's Campaigns 1870-1882. London: Leo Cooper, 1985

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