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Bombardment of Lagos

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Lagos Island

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Royal Navy bombardment that deposed Oba Kosoko and installed Akitoye, paving the way for British annexation of Lagos.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Lagos Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Bombardment of Lagos (1851). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/bombardment-of-lagos · Sources & methodology