Here, you see, they dared not follow us." On the British side five officers and the King of Annamaboe were wounded, and fifty-two of the men.

None were killed, the distance from the bush to the ground held by the English being too far for the Ashanti slugs to inflict mortal wounds.
Ammon Quatia now began to meditate falling back upon the Prah--the sick and wounded were already sent back--but he determined before retiring to attack Abra Crampa, whose king had sided with us, and where an English garrison had been posted.
On the 2d of November, however, Colonel Festing again marched out from Dunquah with a hundred men of the 2d West India regiment, nine hundred native allies, and some Houssas with rockets, under Lieutenant Wilmot, towards the Ashanti camp.

This time Ammon Quatia was not taken by surprise.

His scouts informed him of the approach of the column, and moving out to meet them, he attacked them in the bush before they reached the camp.

Crouching among the trees the Ashantis opened a tremendous fire.