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By the late 19th century, the British, through conquest or purchase, occupied most of the forts along the coast. Two major factors laid the foundations of British rule and the eventual establishment of a colony on the Gold Coast: British reaction to the Asante wars and the resulting instability and disruption of trade, and Britain's increasing preoccupation with the suppression and elimination ...
Brandenburger Gold Coast and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721) British Gold Coast (English, 1821–1957) Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions: [2] the Gold Coast Crown Colony;
English: Map of the British Gold Coast colony highlighted, in British West Africa. Map of British possessions in colonial Africa in 1913 (pink). Note : The limits of the areas of control may not be perfectly accurate due to the imprecision of the reference maps.
An 1896 map of the British Gold Coast Colony. In 1896, a British military force invaded Ashanti and overthrew the native Asantehene, Prempeh I. [97] The deposed Ashanti leader was replaced by a British resident at Kumasi. [97] The British sphere of influence was, thus, extended to include Ashanti following their defeat in 1896.
Detailed map of the border between the Dutch and British possessions. Whereas the Dutch forts on the Gold Coast were a colonial backwater in the 19th century, the British forts were slowly developed into a full colony, especially after Britain took over the Danish Gold Coast in 1850. The presence of Dutch forts in an area that became ...
The resolution recommended that the United Kingdom effect the union of British Togoland with Gold Coast upon the independence of Gold Coast. To achieve that, the Ghana Independence Act 1957 had the United Kingdom annex British Togoland to form part of Her Majesty's dominions comprising the Dominion of Ghana. [1]
The Gold Coast was a strategic location during the Atlantic slave trade. [28] The Portuguese, Swedish, Dano-Norwegians, Dutch, and German traders erected more than thirty forts and castles in the region, with the last, Germans, establishing the German Gold Coast. [29] British soldiers ransack an Ashanti palace at Fomena in 1874. In 1874, the ...
A map of the Gold Coast circa 1700. During the colonial period in Ghana, at the time known as the Gold Coast, roughly corresponding to the 15th through 19th centuries, European-style coastal forts and castles were built, mostly by the Portuguese, Dutch and British. [1]