Ashanti Military Field Marshal c. 1819, by Thomas E. Bowdich.
Leaders
Asantehene (commander-in-chief)
Headquarters
Kumasi
Active regions
Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Togo, Dahomey
Size
capable of 200,000 men.[1][2]
Part of
Ashanti Empire
Allies
The Dutch,[3] Akwamu[4]
Opponents
Denkyira, Fante Confederacy, Ga-Adangbe alliances, Akyem, Kingdom of Dahomey, the Danes and British Empire.
Battles and wars
Battle of Feyiase, Battle of Nsamankow, Battle of Atakpamé, War of the Golden Stool
The Ashanti Empire was an Akan empire and kingdom from 1701 to 1957, in modern-day Ghana. The military of the Ashanti Empire first came into formation around the 17th century AD in response to subjugation by the Denkyira Kingdom. It served as the main armed forces of the empire until it was dissolved when the Ashanti became a British crown colony in 1901.[5]
In 1701, King Osei Kofi Tutu I won Ashanti independence from Denkyira at the Battle of Feyiase and carried out an expansionist policy.[6]
The Ashanti army prior to the 18th century used predominantly bows with poisoned arrows, swords, spears and javelins. King Osei Tutu I instituted reforms in the army such as the adoption of military tactics used by other Akan kingdoms. Through trade with Europeans at the coast, the Ashanti acquired firearms and artillery. By the 19th century, the army was primarily equipped with muskets and rifles. Transportation across water bodies was achieved through the use of canoes. The army was also accompanied by military engineers. Cavalry was not adopted alongside the Ashanti infantry. In order to mobilize personnel for the army, volunteers and contingents from tributaries were supplemented with a core of professional soldiers. The Ashanti developed various tactics such as encirclement and pincer movement.
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^"News.google.com: The Newfoundlander - Dec 16, 1873". Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
^Yarak, Larry W. (1986). "The Elmina Note: Myth and Reality in Asante-Dutch Relations". History in Africa. 13: 363–382. doi:10.2307/3171552. ISSN 0361-5413. JSTOR 3171552. S2CID 161210537.
^Wilks, Ivor (1957). "The Rise of The Akwamu Empire, 1650-1710". Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana. 3 (2): 25–62. JSTOR 41405705.
^’The Location of Administrative Capitals in Ashanti, Ghana, 1896-1911’ by R. B. Bening in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (1979) pg. 210
^History of the Ashanti Empire. Archived 2012-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
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