Anglo-Ashanti Wars
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Were a series of wars between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire (in present-day Ghana) that resulted in the latter becoming a British protectorate.
Chronology
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Was a war between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire of modern-day Ghana.
August 1824: On 7 August, the Ashanti army appeared and attacked the centre of the British line where the best troops were held.
September 1824: The novelty of the weapons, the explosions, rocket trails, and grievous wounds caused by flying metal shards caused the Ashanti retreat from the British territory.
January 1832: In 1831, the Pra River was accepted as the border between the British Gold Coast and the Ashanti Empire in a treaty.
Was a war between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire of modern-day Ghana.
January 1865: Ashanti forces leave the territories they conquered during the Second Anglo-Ashanti War.
Was a war between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire of modern-day Ghana.
August 1874: The Ashanti signed the Treaty of Fomena in July 1874 to end the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
February 1874: In 1874, the British forces, led by Governor Sir Garnet Wolseley, captured Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Empire. The Ashanti people abandoned the city to avoid further conflict with the British Gold Coast.
February 1874: The British leave Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Empire, after a brief occupation.
Was a war between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire of modern-day Ghana. The Ashanti Empire became a British Protectorate.
February 1896: Ashanti Empire becomes a british protectorate. Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh was unable or unwilling to pay the 50,000 ounces of gold so was arrested and deposed. He was forced to sign a treaty of protection, and with other Ashanti leaders was sent into exile in the Seychelles.
February 1896: Colonel Sir Francis Scott left Cape Coast with the main expeditionary force of British and West Indian troops, Maxim guns and 75mm artillery in December 1895, and travelling along the remnants of the 1874 road arrived in Kumasi in January 1896.
Was an Ashanti uprising against British rule in modern-day Ghana.
September 1901: In 1900 the Ashanti staged an uprising. The British suppressed the violence and captured of the city of Kumasi.
