Battle in the British-Ashanti wars
The Second Battle of Accra , part of the First British-Ashanti War , was fought in 1825 in what was then the Gold Coast (now Ghana) between some 15,000 Ashantis and 400 British troops with between 4,600 and 10,600 Africans, including Denkyiras , under then governor John Hope Smith . The Ashantis were defeated, ending the king's plans to take Cape Coast Castle .
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T. B. Harbottle, George Bruce (1979). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (second ed.). Granada. p. 9. ISBN 0-246-11103-8
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