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It was a gradual process: Britain seized Cape Coast from the Dutch as early as 1664 and purchased the remaining Dutch holdings in 1871. Accra was seized in 1874 and the formerly powerful Ashante kingdom reduced to a protectorate in 1896, losing its last vestiges of self-rule after a British-provoked rebellion in 1900.

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