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First Franco-Dahomean War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Cotonou · Atchoupa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

French defence of Cotonou and Porto-Novo against King Béhanzin of Dahomey.

Belligerents2

France
Dahomey

ON THE MAPDahomey

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Atchoupa1890

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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