 On 27 September 1873 a team of Royal Engineers landed at Cape Coast Castle.Their job was to expand the single file track that led to Coomassie, away, into a road that was suitable for troop movements.At the end of each day's march, roughly every a fortified camp would be built with long huts inside a stockade in an area that had been cleared of trees and undergrowth to provide some protection against hostile natives.