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  Denmark (1826)	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 Henry Ricketts (WIA)	Osei Bonsu Osei Yaw Akoto Kwaku Dua I Kofi Karikari Mensa Bonsu Yaa Asantewaa Prempeh I

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] Despite initial Ashanti victories, the British ultimately prevailed in the conflicts, resulting in the complete annexation of the Ashanti Empire by 1900.