Significant1844 – 1864 · 20 years

Egba–Dahomey Wars

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Abeokuta · Dahomey

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Dahomean invasions of Abeokuta repelled by the Egba at the celebrated battles of 1851 and 1864.

Belligerents2

Egba
Dahomey

ON THE MAPDahomey

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Abeokuta (1851)1851

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Egba–Dahomey Wars (1844 – 1864). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/egbadahomey-wars · Sources & methodology