 Technology was reaching the Gold Coast, a railway to Kumasi was started in 1898 but had not progressed far when another war broke out.The railway was to be completed in 1903.In the War of the Golden Stool (1900), also known as the "Third Ashanti Expedition", on 25 March 1900, the British representative, Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson committed a political error by insisting he should sit on the Golden Stool, not understanding that it was the Royal throne and very sacred to the Ashanti.