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War of the Golden Stool



The War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Third Ashanti Expedition, the Ashanti Uprising or variations thereof, was the final war in a series of conflicts between the British Imperial government of the Gold Coast (later Ghana) and the Ashanti Kingdom, a powerful semi-autonomous African state which fractiously co-existed with the British and their vassal coastal tribes. The war began in 1900 due to a poorly-advised attempt by the then governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson to assert his authority over the Ashanti, whose capital Kumasi had been annexed by the British in 1895, and subsequently grew to become a significant West African colonial conflict which saw the Ashanti powerbase destroyed and several thousand soldiers on both sides killed.



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