Anglo-Ashanti wars

Anglo-Asante wars
Part of the British colonisation of Africa
"Defeat of the Ashantees, by the British forces under the command of Coll. Sutherland, July 11th 1824"[1]
Date 1823–1900 Location Asanteman, West Africa (present-day Ghana) Result British victory Establishment of the British Gold Coast The Ashanti state became a British protectorate
Belligerents
British Empire	Ashanti Empire
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Gordon Laing Charles MacCarthy Francis Cunningham Scott Frederick Mitchell Hodgson Garnet Joseph Wolseley John Hope Smith Robert Baden-Powell	Osei Bonsu Osei Yaw Akoto Kwaku Dua I Kofi Karikari Mensa Bonsu Yaa Asantewaa Prempeh I
Casualties and losses
± 1,100	± 2,300

The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies.^[2] The wars were mainly due to Ashanti attempts to maintain and enforce their imperial control over the coastal areas of present-day Ghana, where peoples such as the Fante and the Ga had come under the protection of the British. Although the Ashanti emerged victorious in some of these conflicts, the British ultimately prevailed in the fourth and fifth conflicts, resulting in the complete annexation of the Ashanti Empire by 1900.