[2] King Asantehene Prempeh I's original throne name was Prince Kwaku Dua III Asamu of the Ashanti Empire.

Through strategic political marriages she built the military power to secure the Golden Stool for her son Prince Prempeh.

[3] Eventually a British expedition was launched on the basis of Prempeh's failure to pay an indemnity and his perpetuation of human sacrifices within his kingdom.

[5] The Asantehene directed the Ashanti not to resist the British advance, as he feared reprisals from Britain if the expedition turned violent.

The British formally declared the state of the Ashanti and the coastal regions to be the Gold Coast colony.

[citation needed] The Telegraph Battalion of the Royal Engineers (predecessor of the Royal Corps of Signals) played a prominent part in the Ashanti Campaign; men of the Telegraph Battalion hacked a path for an overhead line from the Coast to Prahsu, covering 72 miles through the jungle.

[7] Prempeh I spent time in his villa on Mahe from repatriation, the largest island of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Prempeh I villa, and 16 new wooden houses with sandy floors and roofed with corrugated iron sheets, were built in the Seychelles and allocated to the various Asante nobles.