For 10 points, name this West African Kingdom that was located in present day Ghana that possessed a sacred Golden Stool.
One campaign against this people was led by 27 officers including: Redvers Buller, Evelyn Wood and Frederick Maurice, who would later be referred to as this polity's ring or in punning reference to its leader the "Garnet Ring." That leader would establish a West Indian Battalion at Prasu and a staging post at Formena in 1874 for an attack on this polity's capital. The conflict was initiated by the ascension of this polity's King (*) Kofi Karikari in 1867 who had mounted two military expeditions against the Elmina. Upon which, command was given to Maj. Gen. Garnet Wolseley who generated a successful attack against this polity's forces at Essaman and decisively beat this polity at Amoafu, though when he arrived in this kingdom's capital, Kumasi, he found it empty and razed to the ground. For 10 points, name this West African Kingdom that was located in present day Ghana that possessed a sacred Golden Stool.
One campaign against this people was led by 27 officers including: Redvers Buller, Evelyn Wood and Frederick Maurice, who would later be referred to as this polity's ring or in punning reference to its leader the "Garnet Ring.
{Ashanti} Empire