At nightfall both parties drew off.
"Is that the way your English soldiers fight ?" the general asked Frank that night.
"Yes," Frank said vaguely; "they fire away at each other." "And then I suppose," the general said, "when one party has exhausted its ammunition it retires." "Certainly it would retire," Frank said.

"It could not resist without ammunition you know." Frank carefully abstained from mentioning that one side or the other would advance even before the ammunition of its opponents was expended, for he did not wish the Ashantis to adopt tactics which, from their greatly superior numbers, must at once give them a victory.

The Ashantis were not dissatisfied with the day's work, as they considered that they had proved themselves equal to the English troops..