• The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a British force of 1,200 men under Sir Harry Rawson. It came in response to the ambush and slaughter...
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    its highest quality. Most of the plaques and other objects were taken by British forces during the Benin Expedition of 1897 as the British Empire's control...
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    bearer to King Ovonramwen (the Oba of Benin) in 1897. He participated in the defence of Benin during the 1897 expedition, engaging the British expeditionary...
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    of the Kingdom of Benin' is an unidentified West African flag that was brought to Britain after the Benin Expedition of 1897 against the Kingdom of Benin...
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    Republic of Benin, which was then known as Dahomey) has continued to be mostly populated by the Edo (also known as Benin ethnic group). In 1897, a British...
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    the form of a traditional African mask. The masks were looted by the British from the palace of the Oba of Benin in the Benin Expedition of 1897. Two almost...
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    Benin art is the art from the Kingdom of Benin or Edo Empire (1440–1897), a pre-colonial African state located in what is now known as the Southern region...
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    Akenzua II (category Obas of Benin)
    compounds and ancestral altars in the punitive Benin Expedition of 1897. During his reign, only two of the 3,000 royal court bronzes were returned. However...
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  • James Robert Phillips (category 1897 deaths)
    part in the events that led to the Benin Expedition of 1897. In 1897, Phillips set out to petition the Oba of Benin, although his reasons for doing so remain...
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    Harry Rawson (category British military personnel of the Benin Expedition of 1897)
    chiefly remembered for overseeing the Benin Expedition of 1897, a British punitive expedition against the Kingdom of Benin (in modern-day Nigeria). Rawson's...
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    Okukor (category Benin Court Art)
    the Kingdom of Benin during the Benin Expedition of 1897, a punitive expedition dispatched to punish the Oba of Benin after a Royal Niger Company delegation...
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    Kingdom of Benin. The New York Times reported on January 13, 1897 that a "punitive expedition" would be formed to "punish the murderers of the Benin City...
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    century at the Benin court. Many Benin works of art entered the European art market after the Benin Expedition of 1897 – Four cast bronze heads of the queen...
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    Nigerian Army (category Defence agencies of Nigeria)
    experiences in the Benin Expedition of 1897, as well as wider British efforts of complete reorganization of its African colonial units such as that of the Egyptian...
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  • collection gathered from material seized by British troops during the Benin Expedition of 1897. Webster was born in 1868 in Greenwich to Robert and Sarah Webster...
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  • Francis William Kennedy (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    1914 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916. A West African flag he brought back from the Benin Expedition of 1897 is in the collection of the National Maritime...
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  • Gilbert Stephenson (category British military personnel of the Benin Expedition of 1897)
    HMS Forte. While with Forte he was involved in the Punitive Expedition of 1897 in Benin. Following promotion to sub-lieutenant on 15 June 1898, he went...
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  • constructed of limestone blocks. Together, the moats and walls constituted defenses. The British punitive expedition in 1897, which heavily damaged the Benin Moat...
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    Sackville Carden (category British military personnel of the Benin Expedition of 1897)
    Rawson, in the Benin Expedition of 1897. He was promoted to captain in December 1899, and in May 1901 was commissioned in command of HMS Immortalité...
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    Reginald Bacon (category British military personnel of the Benin Expedition of 1897)
    commander of a flotilla of torpedo boats in the British naval manoeuvres of 1896. In 1897 he served as a member of the British punitive expedition to Benin, and...
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    sacked and burnt in 1897 by a British punitive expedition. Many bronze sculptures in Benin City palace, collectively termed the Benin Bronzes, were stolen...
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    Idia (redirect from Idia of Benin)
    of Idia were looted from Benin City during the British Benin Expedition of 1897 and are now held in museums around the world. Alongside other Benin Bronzes...
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    proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire: lasts until 1910. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin. Greco-Turkish War. Bram Stoker writes Dracula. First...
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    Edward Unwin (category British military personnel of the Benin Expedition of 1897)
    mariners recruited to the Navy to fill a shortage of junior officers) and served in the Benin Expedition and the Second Boer War. In November 1901 he was...
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    a Benin plaque and two Igbo alusi figures for auction. The plaque was tied to similar plaques taken from Nigeria during the Benin Expedition of 1897 and...
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    Naval brigade (category Ad hoc units and formations of the United States)
    the Benin Expedition of 1897 the Boer War (1899–1900) the Boxer Rebellion in China (1900) The field gun competition commemorates the participation of a...
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    Alan Maxwell Boisragon (category Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst)
    two survivors of a small British expedition to Benin which was attacked and defeated, the incident prompting the Benin Expedition of 1897. Boisragon published...
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    increasing influence of Europe on Esanland, as the English demanded palm-products. In 1897, the British launched the Benin Expedition of 1897, which left the...
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    (1972) Robert Home, City of Blood Revisited: A New Look at the Benin Expedition of 1897 (1982) Tekena Tamuno, The Evolution of the Nigerian State: The...
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    collection of Nizam of Hyderabad and sold to Archibald Hunter in 1905 Nigeria 19 Benin Bronzes taken during the Benin Expedition of 1897 Indigenous American...
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