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Battle of Cana

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Cana · Dahomey

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Fighting on 2-4 November 1892 near the sacred city of Cana broke the military power of Dahomey; King Behanzin burned and evacuated the capital Abomey, which the French entered on 17 November.

Belligerents2

French Third Republic
Kingdom of Dahomey (Behanzin)

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond Franco-Dahomean War

Sources

Wikipedia: Second Franco-Dahomean War
Histories of the Dahomey campaign
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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