Ashanti Empire (Great Britain)

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Was a state located in actual Ghana, Togo and Ivory Coast. After the conquest of Ashanti by the British forces, it was a protectorate for a short time before becoming part of the larger British Gold Coast colony.

Establishment

January 1896: Establishment of the British protectorate over the Ashanti Empire.

Chronology

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1. Anglo-Ashanti Wars

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.

1.1.Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War

Was a war between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire of modern-day Ghana. The Ashanti Empire became a British Protectorate.

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.

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.