Major conflict1897

Punitive Expedition against Benin

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Benin City

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

British naval expedition that sacked Benin City and ended the Benin Empire after the Phillips massacre.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Benin Empire

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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