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TIL in 1900 British representative Frederick Hodgson demanded to sit on the sacred Golden Stool of the Ashanti people which led to an uprising that ended with 3,000 casualties on both sides and annexation of the Ashanti Empire, which had resisted encroachment for decades.

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