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In the Ashanti-Fante War of 1806–07, the British refused to hand over two rebels pursued by the Ashanti, but eventually handed one over (the other escaped). In the Ga-Fante War of 1811, the Ashanti sought to aid their Ga allies in a war against the Fante and their British allies. The Ashanti army won the initial battles but was forced back by ...
The Second Anglo–Ashanti War also known as the Second Anglo–Asante War [4] and Third Anglo–Asante War [5] was an armed conflict between the Ashanti Empire led by Kwaku Dua I against the United Kingdom and Fante tribes led by Richard Pine. It took place from March 1863 to June 1864, ending with a withdrawal of British troops.
In late 1823, following the disagreements between the Fante and the Ashantis, the British declared war on the king of the Ashanti; after organising the defences of Cape Coast, MacCarthy set out with an expedition of some 80 men of the Royal African Colonial Corps (RACC), 170 men of the Cape Coast Militia, and 240 Fanti tribesmen under their local chiefs.
The war grew out of an incident in May 1822 in which an Ashanti trader verbally abused the governor to a policeman, who in turn abused the Ashanti ruler. The policeman was later kidnapped in November. [1] News of Sergeant Otetfo's capture had brought McCarthy back from Sierra Leone, and he landed at the Cape Coast in December 1822.
Scene from Third Anglo-Asante War 1874. The Asante also used hammer and anvil tactics in wars such as the third Anglo-Ashanti war. In 1874 a strong British force under Sir Garnet Wolseley, armed with modern rifles and artillery, invaded the territory of the Asante Empire. The Asante did not confront the invaders immediately, and made no major ...
First Anglo-Ashanti War begins in West Africa War begins between the United Kingdom and the Ashanti. With the occurrence of the Ashanti–Fante War in 1806, the groups that had been allied with the Fante people against the Ashanti like the Ga people, leading a series of wars, and the Ashanti, allied with the Dutch, tried to limit European ...
The Katamanso War, also known as the Battle of Dodowa, was a war that several tribes united with the British, fought and prevented Ashantis from dominating the coast in 1826. Numerous tribes in the Gold Coast such as the Fantes, Ga, Akyems, Adas were led by the British army to fight the Ashantis.
1824–1901 Anglo–Ashanti wars. 1806–1816 Earlier wars. 1806–1807 Ashanti–Fante War; 1811 Ga–Fante War; 1814–1816 Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War; 1823–1831 First Anglo-Ashanti War. 1823 Battle of Nsamankow; 1863 – 1864 Second Anglo-Ashanti War; 1873 – 1874 Third Anglo-Ashanti War. January 31, 1874 Battle of Amoaful; February 4 ...