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Ashanti–Fante War
The Ashanti–Fante War (1806–1807) was a war fought
Ashanti–Fante War
between the Ashanti Empire and the Fante Confederacy in the
region of what is currently the Republic of Ghana. Part of the Anglo-Ashanti Wars

Date 1806–1807
Background Location Present-day Republic
of Ghana
In 1806 when the Asantehene Osei Bonsu, brought charges of
Result Ashanti/Dutch victory
grave robbing on some of his subjects who run from Kumasi to
Assin.[1] Fleeing Ashanti lands, these suspected grave robbers Belligerents
were granted refuge by the Fante. Osei Bonsu sent out envoys Ashanti Fante
to the Fante state of Abura for harboring fugitives. The last Empire Confederacy
envoys were murdered by the Fante. Osei Bonsu declared war
Holland United
in response.[1] The Ashanti sacked Abura in May 1806. The
Kingdom
Ashanti later attacked the British fort at Anomabu on 15 June
1806 for protecting the Ashanti fugitives who had fled there. Commanders and leaders
8000 of the 1500 Fante at Anomabu were slain by 16 June. Osei Bonsu Kwadwo
The Ashanti tried to capture the British fort with significant Otibu
losses. British governor Torrane surrendered the fort to the
Ashanti siege and diplomatic reconciliation took place between Torrane and Osei Bonsu on 25
June. The surviving Fante chiefs swore allegiance to the Asantehene.[1]

Aftermath of War
Ashanti–Fante War breaks out

This war, also known as the Ghana War, begins between the Ashanti associate degree Fante
Confederacies of present–day Ghana. The Ashanti had resisted makes an attempt by Europeans,
chiefly the British, to colonize them, and aligned themselves with the Dutch to limit British
influence within the region. However, the British still annexed neighboring areas, together with the
Fante, and also the succeeding conflicts eventually increase into the war of 1806, during which the
Ashanti are victorious. In 1811 the Ga–Fante War sees the defeat of the Ashanti, though they still
capture a British fort. In 1814 the Ashanti launch an invasion of the Gold Coast, totally routing the
tribes allied with the Europeans.

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, particularly British, power within the
region of the Gold Coast. A series of forts were designed by the British Government in the region
from 1821 that the Ashanti plan to invade and capture. In 1824 their forces surrounded a smaller
army of around 1,000 British troops under the governor of West Africa, General Sir Charles

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McCarthy (?–1824) at Accra, defeating them and forcing the suicide of a humiliated McCarthy. The
series of correct wars between the Fante people and Ashanti begins in 1826, ending with a pact in
1831, however breaking out once more in 1873.

See also
Ashanti Empire
Ga–Fante War

References
1. McCaskie, Tom (August 2014). "Telling the Tale of Osei Bonsu: An Essay on the Making of
Asante Oral History" (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/telling-the-tale-of-o
sei-bonsu-an-essay-on-the-making-of-asante-oral-history/3556D70326A0DCF776A70BEB8E2
5F908). Africa. 84 (3): 353–370. doi:10.1017/S0001972014000394 (https://doi.org/10.1017%2
FS0001972014000394). ISSN 0001-9720 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0001-9720).
JSTOR 24525557 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24525557). S2CID 146791145 (https://api.sema
nticscholar.org/CorpusID:146791145).

Adu Boahen: Politics in Ghana, 1800–1874. In: History of West Africa, London 1974, ISBN 0-
582-64552-2.
Manoukian, Madeline, Akan and Ga-Adangme Peoples. London: International African Institute
Edited by Daryll Forde, 1950
Rev. W.T Balmer, M.A., B.D. A History of the Akan Peoples of the Gold Coast: "Result of the
Invasion of Fanti by Ashanti" 101–103. The Atlantis Press, 1925
Black Studies Center, Akan Kingdom reigns. Ghana.1695.
BSC, First Anglo-Ashanti War begins. West Africa.1823.
Black Studies Center, Bond of 1844 signed. 1844.

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