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British Annexation of Lagos

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Lagos

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Cession of Lagos by Oba Dosunmu under British naval pressure, founding the Lagos Colony.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Lagos Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1858)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: British Annexation of Lagos (1861). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/british-annexation-of-lagos · Sources & methodology