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How this Ashanti king led an army to defeat the British and behead a governor on this day in 1824.
The Ashanti were between the 15th and 19th century having enormous wealth and dominance over trade and lands as well as strong warriors.
It’s almost 200 years since the Battle of Nsamankow, which was fought between the Ashanti Kingdom that occupied what is now southern Ghana and the British. In that war, during the reign of Ashanti king Osei Tutu Kwame Asibe Bonsu (c. 1801–24), the Ashanti brutally defeated the...
British, killing a governor on this day, January 21, 1824.
That war would mark the beginning of the over 100 years of battle between the British and the Ashanti people which is today known as the Anglo-Ashanti wars. But what sparked the war?
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