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| conventional_long_name = Ashanti Empire
| common_name = Asante
| status = [[State union]] with [[Ghana]]
| status_text =
| life_span = {{plainlist|
*1670/1701–1902
*1935–1957
*1957–present (as [[Ashanti Region]] within [[Ghana]])}}
| event_start =
| year_start = 1701
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| event1 = Independence from [[Denkyira]]
| date_event1 = 1701
| event2 = Annexed to form
| date_event2 = 1901<ref name="Ashanti Order in Council 1901">Ashanti Order in Council 1901.</ref>
| event3 = Self-rule within British colony
| date_event3 = 1935
| event4 = [[State union]] as [[Ashanti Region]] with Ghana
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| p1 = Denkyira
| p2 = Bonoman
| s1 = Ashanti (Crown Colony){{!}}Ashanti Crown Colony
| flag_s1 = Flag of the Gold Coast (1877–1957).svg
| s2 = Ghana
| flag_s2 = Flag of Ghana.svg
| image_flag = Flag_of_Ashanti.svg
| flag_type =
| image_coat = Ashanti Empire Flag.svg
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From 1824 till 1899 there were five [[Anglo-Ashanti wars]] between the Ashanti Empire and Great Britain and its allies. The British lost or negotiated truces in several of these wars, with the final war resulting in British burning of [[Kumasi]] and official occupation of the Ashanti Empire in 1900. The wars were mainly due to Ashanti attempts to establish a stronghold over the coastal areas of present-day Ghana. Coastal peoples such as the [[Fante people|Fante]] and the [[Ga people|Ga]] came to rely on British protection against Ashanti incursions.
In December 1895, the British left [[Cape Coast]] with an expeditionary force to start what is known as the [[Third Anglo-Ashanti War]], see [[#Third Anglo-Ashanti War|below]]. The Asantehene directed the Ashanti to not resist the British advance, as he feared reprisals from Britain if the expedition turned violent. Shortly thereafter, Governor [[William Edward Maxwell|William Maxwell]] arrived in Kumasi as well.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
Britain [[annexation|annexed]] the territories of the Ashanti and the Fanti and constituted the [[Ashanti (Crown Colony)|Ashanti Crown Colony]] on 26 September 1901.<ref name="Ashanti Order in Council 1901" /> Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh was deposed and arrested, and he and other Ashanti leaders were sent into exile in the [[Seychelles]]. The Asante Union was dissolved{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}. A [[British Resident]] was permanently placed in the city of Kumasi, and soon after a British fort was built there{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}.
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In 1895, the Ashanti turned down an unofficial offer to become a British protectorate.
The Ashanti wanting to keep French and European colonial forces out of the territory (and its gold), the British were anxious to conquer
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