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Charles MacCarthy
Sir Charles MacCarthy was a British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast settlements in the early nineteenth century. He led a British expedition against the Ashanti Empire and was killed at the Battle of Nsamankow in 1824, when his force was annihilated. His skull was reputedly kept by the Asante as a trophy.
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