Crooks (1923) suggests that the first conflict actually took place at Fort William, in Anomabu. However, a reading of the Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874 by J.J. This basis for the description of these incidents came from Edgerton’s The Fall of the Asante Empire (1995), which describes the first conflict between the Asante and British as occurring at Cape Coast Castle, the headquarters of the British Cape Company at the time. Update March 2018: Previously, this article was titled The Asante Fante-War of 1806-1807 and the Battle of Cape Coast Castle. ← Previous: The Rise of the Asante Empire (1680-1750) War between the Asante and the coastal Fante Confederacy would lead the kingdom into their first conflict with British forces.
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