Anglo-Ashanti wars

Anglo-Ashanti wars

series of wars

Part of	Scramble for Africa
Ein location	Asante Empire
Coordinate location	5°27′0″N 0°58′12″W
Tym dem start	1823
End tym	1900
Participant	British Empire, Asante Empire

Na de Anglo-Ashanti wars be a series of five conflicts wey take place between 1824 den 1900 between de Ashanti Empire—insyd de Akan interior of de Gold Coast—den de British Empire den ein African allies. Despite initial Ashanti victories, na de British ultimately prevail insyd de conflicts, wey dey result insyd de complete annexation of de Ashanti Empire by 1900.

Earlier wars

Na de British fight three earlier wars insyd de Gold Coast:

Insyd de Ashanti–Fante War of 1806–07, na de British refuse make dem hand over two rebels wey be pursued by de Ashanti, buh eventually dem hand one over (na de oda escape).

Insyd de Ga–Fante War of 1811, na de Ashanti sought make dem aid dema Ga allies insyd a war against de Fante den dema British allies. Na de Ashanti army win de initial battles buh na dem force dem back by guerrilla wey dey fight from de Fante. Na de Ashanti capture a British fort at Tantamkweri.

Insyd de Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War of 1814–16 na de Ashanti defeat de Akim-Akwapim alliance. Na local British, Dutch den Danish authorities all cam to terms plus de Ashanti. By 1817, na de Ashanti dey expand plus an army of about 20,000, so na de (British) African Company of Merchants sign a treaty of friendship wey recognized Ashanti claims to sovereignty over much of de coast. Na dem dissolve de African Company of Merchants insyd 1821 wey na de British government assume control of de trading forts on de Gold Coast from de merchants.

Awards

Na dem make four awards of de Victoria Cross, for Gallantry insyd de period 1873–74 den two for de 1900 campaign.

Na dem create an Ashanti Medal give those wey involve insyd de War of de Golden Stool. Na dis expedition last from March to September 1900. Na dem issue am as a Silver anaa bronze Medal.

Footnote

After de 1896 Expedition, na dem exile King Prempeh go de Seychelles. Eleven years later, na Baden-Powell create de Boy Scout Movement. Na dem release King Prempeh from exile wey dem restore am to Ashanti, wey he cam be Patron of Ashanti Scouts.

References

Bibliography

• Anonymous (11 June 1874). "The Treaty with the King of the Ashantees". Wanganui Herald. Vol. VIII, no. 2195. p. 2.
• Edgerton, Robert B. (2010). The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa's Gold Coast. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451603736.
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• Nowers, Colonel John (1994), Steam Traction in the Royal Engineers, North Kent Books, ISBN 0-948305-07-X

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• Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815–1914: an Encyclopedia of British Military History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576079256.
• Wilks, Ivor (1975). Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20463-1.

Read further

General

• Agbodeka, Francis (1971). African Politics and British Policy in the Gold Coast, 1868–1900: A Study in the Forms and Force of Protest. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-0368-0.
• McCarthy, Mary (1983). Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast: The Fante States, 1807–1874. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. ISBN 0-8191-3148-2.
• Messenger, Charles, ed. Reader's Guide to Military History (2001) pp. 570–71 excerpt, historiography.
• Adu Boahen, A. (2003). Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900–1. Sub-Saharan Publishers. ISBN 978-9988550998.

Third Anglo-Ashanti War

• "The Ashantee War / Capture of Coomassie". The Illustrated London News. No. 1801.—Vol. LXIV. 28 February 1874. p. 194.
• "The Ashantee War". The Illustrated London News. No. 1802.—Vol. LXIV. 7 March 1874. p. 218.
• "The Ashantee War". The Illustrated London News. No. 1803.—Vol. LXIV. 14 March 1874. p. 242.
• "The Ashantee War". The Illustrated London News. No. 1804.—Vol. LXIV. 21 March 1874. p. 266.
• "The Ashantee War". The Illustrated London News. No. 1805.—Vol. LXIV. 28 March 1874. p. 290.
• "The Return of the Troops". The Illustrated London News. No. 1806.—Vol. LXIV. 4 April 1874. p. 327.

External links

• Jones, Jim (2004). "The British in West Africa". Archived from the original on 7 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
• Stanley, Henry Morton (1876). Coomassie and Magdala: the story of two British campaigns in Africa. New York: Harper.
• Boyle, Frederick (1874). Through Fanteeland to Coomassie, a diary of the Ashantee expedition. London: Chapman and Hall.
• Reade, Winwood (1874). The Story of the Ashantee Campaign. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Henty, George A (1904). Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti. – historical fiction