Description Of all the enemies that our hero has shrunk away from, there was one he feared above them all. "You could not see them coming," he complaine.
While they could all make his guts churn anxiously, the foe that really put him off his lunch were the Ashanti.
It was not even the more exotic adversaries such as the Iroquois, Mahratta or Zulus.
It was not the French, the Spanish, the Americans or the Mexicans.
By his own admission they gave him nightmares into his dotage.
Description Of all the enemies that our hero has shrunk away from, there was one he feared above them all