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Battle of Essaman

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Ghana

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Essaman (1873), part of the 2nd British-Ashanti War. United Kingdom defeated Ashanti Kingdom.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Ashanti Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1858)

Conflict graph

PART OFSagrenti War (Third Anglo-Ashanti War)

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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