British Punitive Expedition (1897): 1400 to 1900: Africa

The British punitive expedition against Benin, a small city-state east of Lagos in what is now Edo State in Nigeria, took place in February 1897. It involved the invasion and destruction of the state, the looting of nearly 2,500 of its ...

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