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Battle of Amoaful

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Amoaful · Ashanti Empire · Gold Coast

Estimated casualties

150 – 800estimated dead

Ashanti losses estimated in the hundreds; British losses light. Figures uncertain.

SOURCEBritish accounts

On 31 January 1874 Wolseley's British force defeated the main Ashanti army at Amoaful, opening the road to Kumasi during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Ashanti Empire

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1858)Asante Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFSagrenti War (Third Anglo-Ashanti War)

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Amoaful
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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