The queen also was caught and, on the 24th of April, a telegram was sent home with the words: "The campaign is at an end." There can be no doubt that this expedition will lead to great results.

The natives of Ashanti and the surrounding tribes have received a lesson that will not be forgotten for a great number of years and, long before that time, it may be hoped that civilization will have made such strides there that there will be no more chance of trouble.

They have been taught that they are absolutely unable to stand against the white man; that neither distance, the thickness of their forests, stockades, nor weather can check the progress of British troops; and that resistance can only draw down upon them terrible loss, and the destruction of their villages and crops.
They had received no such lessons in the previous expeditions.

That of Governor Sir Charles M'Carthy had been entirely defeated, and the governor himself killed.

Another expedition, in 1867, met with a total failure.