gregyboy:



A yoruba nigga like you also debated me on the ebuttemeta issh on the previous page

He argued ebuttemeta was occupied and controlled by either egba or ijebu, and insisted benin influence never got there


I wish i could remember is moniker and give him a knock
Same thing goes for you for undermining benin influence on entire lagos

christistruth01:






In the Ota War of 1842 the Egba of Abeokuta won all the Land between Abeokuta and the Lagos Coast by Conquest.

The Only place the Egba didn't take was the Lagos Island and even that is Awori Yoruba.

gregyboy:



I would they touch the capital, like I said the war wasn't again Benin sovereignty on them but a yoruba tribal war

christistruth01:



The Oyos ( Ibadan are ethnic Oyo) did everything they Could to take over the Egba and Ijebu Coast of Lagos but God Almighty in his Wisdom never gave it to them so they had to Content themselves with Badagry and Porto Novo which they had taken from Dahomians.

gregyboy:



Guy all this war when you dey talk na imaginery war ooh


Quote from Samuel johson book on history of Yoruba he saw all the wars,


And not some unverified source writen by bloggers

Ctorch:
Lagos belongs to Benin - Obanikoro's grandson declares, reveals why its monarchs never wore crowns.


The grandson of the eighth Obanikoro of Lagos has spoken on the issue surrounding the ownership of the state

- Engineer Layiwola Ajayi-Bembe said Lagos truly belongs to the people of Benin

- According to the octogenarian, it was agreed at a meeting in 1903 that Obas in Lagos should not wear crowns.

An octogenarian and grandson of the eighth Obanikoro of Lagos, Engineer Layiwola Ajayi-Bembe, has given a deeper insight into the history of Lagos and its relationship with Benin.

Layiwola also said that Obas in Lagos were historically referred to as 'Elekos' and did not wear crowns.

Speaking with Legit.ng's correspondent, Adeoye Adewunmi, in an exclusive telephone interview, Layiwola, who is the chairman of County and City Bricks, disabused the minds of people who believe that Lagos is 'no man’s land'.

Ajayi-Bembe explained that the decision of the Obas in Lagos not to wear crowns was resolved at a royal meeting held in 1903.

He further explained that Lagos belongs to the Bini (Benin) and not the Yorubas as it is misconstrued, adding that there are still relics of Benin all over Isale Eko.

The chairman, whose mother was the first child of Gbajabiamila (of Olowogbowo fame), identified Idumota, Iduntafa, Idunmagbo and Idunganran as Bini names.

He said:

“Obas (in Lagos) - we don’t call them ‘obas’, we call them ‘eleko’ and they don’t wear crown.

“My grandfather was at a royal meeting in 1903 when there was a dispute of which traditional rulers should wear crowns.

“Ooni of Ife had to come all the way from Ife to Lagos upon the invitation of Governor (John Hawley) Glover.
“And the question they asked him (Ooni) was: ‘Who are the Obas that should wear crowns?’ He mentioned them – Lagos was not part of the list. We don’t wear crowns in Lagos.
“Lagos is Bini, not only because we came from Benin. There are signs and relics of Benin all over Isale Eko.


Enuowa is in Lagos; Idumota is a Bini name; Iduntafa is Bini name; Idunmagbo is Bini name; Iduganran is Bini name; tell me, what further proof do you want (that the Bini own Lagos)?”


https://www.legit.ng/1398022-lagos-belongs-benin-obanikoros-grandson-declares-reveals-monarchs-wore-crowns.html?fbclid=IwAR1BoQNVPVSmdYJQLkM0FEGTM79amLvBRU65gkyRX0pLtStG6RymygjZRHU

Nijagogetsense:


Hmmm

christistruth01:


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/family-not-benin-says-musiliu-obanikoro/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwiRqe2d3KruAhWDi1wKHU4SCfYQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw3ULB45p9rNRSDiy7lRmykE&ampcf=1

tao11

(1) First of all, it is very crucial that I make it super clear that the specific land mass of our discussion is actually an island.

This fact is made clear in the notes of the German traveler (Andreas Joshua Ulsheimer) who visited the area from the year 1603. 

Andreas Joshua Ulsheimer reports in his 1603-4 notes that a town “Lago” was situated “on an island”.

In present-times, this island have come to be known by the name Lagos island. Its location can be identified (as highlighted in red) in the zoomed-in map embedded below:

(2) Secondly, the actual town which Ulsheimer referred to as “Lago” did NOT occupy the whole of that island. Also, it was NOT the only town on that island.

This fact is also made clear in the same notes of Ulsheimer. The two points below each clearly establish this fact.

(A) Ulsheimer notes state that this town “Lago” [which is “surrounded by a … fence”] is, in fact, “a frontier town”.

(B) Ulsheimer notes state that many people come to this town (Lago) not only “by water” but also “by land”.

This proves that those who came to the town (Lago) specifically “by land” could not have possibly been able to do so except that they themselves live on that same island but in a different town.

In the light of these foregoing information (which all comes from Ulsheimer’s 1603-4 notes), it becomes clear that the town “Lago” was just one of the different towns on that island. 

Given the obvious fact that there are at least two other towns on that island, your repeated depiction of “Lago” as the only town on that island is terribly erroneous.

II - OWNERSHIP

(1) Ulsheimer’s notes of 1603-4, which has been repeatedly cited above, make the following statement about the ownership of this town “Lago” as at the time he visited:

“Forty miles from Benin lies a large town called Lago, which also belongs to the ”

~ Andreas Ulsheimer’s “Voyage of 1603-4”.

(2) However, it is not specified whether the Binis owned “Lago” town by virtue of aboriginal right, or forceful take over, or conferment.

Each of these three possibilities will be examined in turns in the comments that follow. But just before that, it is crucial that I stress again that Ulsheimer’s notes prove that there are other towns (apart from the Binis’s Lago) on that same island.

A) Regarding aboriginal ownership, different early European sources render the indigenous name of this island [and beyond] as “Ahoni” land, or “Awani” land, or “Ahouy” land, etc.

M. d’Avezac (1845:25-26), for instance, does cite some of these early European sources which variously render the indigenous name as such -- among other close renderings of the same word.

These European renderings of the indigenous name thus agree with the multiply attested traditional account which holds strongly that the Awori people are the aboriginal owners of this island [and beyond].

[s]In Summary:

(i) Ulsheimer’s notes remain silent on the specific nature of the Binis’s ownership of town “Lago”.

(ii) Other early European notes (and the multiply attested traditional account) inform us that the island as a whole [and beyond] is aboriginally owned by the Aworis.[/s]
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[s]
Tao11
(i) Firstly, it must be noted that Ulsheimer arrived in our region in the year 1603. Long before his arrival, the Binis were already one of the different groups residing on that island.

He met them there with an already flourishing town of their own – a town “surrounded by a strong fence”; with houses in it; etc. 

This proves that, he could not have witnessed how or when the Binis originally came from Benin to settle-in into this island. 

To be emphatic, his notes remain silent on how (or when) the Binis initially came to settle-in into this island.[/s]

[s]ii) Before proceeding any further, it is important that you’re reminded again of your erroneous and misleading description of the town “Lago”. 

Your erroneous and misleading description which portrays this town as one which encompasses the whole of that island is as depicted in the outrightly wrong imagery below.[/s]

[s]Having stressed that, the most that Ulsheimer’s notes show is that, as at the time he arrived at our region in 1603-4, he met the Binis already living as an armed unit, but within the four walls of their own town. He notes:

“In it [inside town Lago] live none but soldiers and four military commanders, who behave in a very stately manner.”

Firstly, Ulsheimer’s statement here shows (very plainly) that these Binis lived (NOT in another town on that island, but) within the four walls of their own town.

Secondly, nowhere in his notes is it mentioned (or even suggested) that they had always lived (since their arrival) as an armed unit. Nowhere! [/s]

Given Ulsheimer’s deafening silence on (1) how the Binis initially came to settle-in into this island, and on (2) why they live within their fence as an armed unit in 1603-4; other materials (with such information) must be adduced. 

To be super clear again, we do NOT have a situation of contradiction here – there are no contradictions in a situation of ‘Silence vs. Information’.

Having clarified that, the earliest available writings which speak on these specific questions are the records of Lagos history published by the British authorities in the years 1878, 1914, and 1929.

For instance, refer to page 43 of Sir Alan C. Burns’ “History of Nigeria”, (1929) as embedded below for the information on these two specific questions.

[s]Unlike Ulsheimer’s notes which is silent on these two specific questions; the page above from a British colonial record of Lagos history provides information on these two questions.

These British records of Lagos history agree that the Binis’s ownership of their spot on that island was by virtue of conferment from the native aboriginal owners – the Awori-Yorubas.[/s]

To show a few contradictions between Ulsheimer eyewitness account and Alan's compilation of folktale stories , we'll first define the meaning of conferment

From ur conclusion using Alan folktales, are u also agreeing to the fact that ur Yoruba grandfather's were whimps and weaklings that they couldn't fight for their land but had to give out a large portion to the Benin out of fear

Ulsheimer account says that the Benin were the ones majorly in Lagos which is the present day jurisdiction of the Eleko of Eko while Alan erroneously said that the Benin, after previously attacking Lagos, peacefully infiltrated the town or according to u, conferred them land... As a thank u gift for invading them ?

[s]For the sake of completeness, I feel obliged to mention here that many, many decades after these records of Lagos history had been published by the British authorities; a new and contrary writing emerged for the first time in the 1950s – this time, from Benin City, by the Benin Chief Egharevba.

Considering the lateness of this Benin writing in comparison to the much more earlier records of Lagos history by the British authorities; Chief Egharevba’s later-day contrary writings on this specific subject are no more than reactive. [/s]

[s]In contrast, there is NO earlier contrary writing on these two specific questions which these British records of Lagos history could have been reacting to. 

These British records of Lagos history (on these specific questions) are therefore a fair documentation of the multiply attested traditional account. These are the earliest on these specific topics.[/s]

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Tao11
[s](A) “Ouyô” (d’Avezac, 1845:21).


(B) “Jos” (Landolphe, 1823 — cited in d’Avezac, 1845:21).


(C) “Ouyó” (d’Avezac, 1845:26)


Each of these three simply represents a different European spelling for one and the same name, viz. “Ijaw”.[/s] 

[s]Contrary to my prior unwarranted assumption that the rendering “Ichoo” must have been older than the Ijebus’s designation; a more careful consideration of the text in d’Avezac text shows that no such information was provided.

M. d’Avezac is actually silent on which is the older – the Ijebu-Yorubas’s or the Dutch’s? No information is provided by d’Avezac in this regard. [/s]

[s]The only information he provided on these two is his recognition that they [“Ichoo” and the Ijebus’s designation] are one and the same thing.

In the light of his silence as to which of these two is older — the Ijebus’s or the Dutch’s — other materials (with such information) must be adduced. 

[s]On this specific note, Sir Alan C. Burns’ “History of Nigeria”, (1929) states, and I quote here, that:

“Formerly it was known as Eko, which name it had received before any [residential] settlements were made on the island.”[/s]

[s]A Yoruba word which loudly stands out among others as the ancestor of the word “Eko” is the Yoruba word “Ereko”. 

This is reasonably accurate for the following reasons:

(A) First of all, “ereko” is not “island” as some here may think. “Island” in Yoruba is “Erekushu”.

Secondly, “Ereko” refers to any sizeable area of land which is reserved for agriculture (i.e. oko), and which is subordinate to (i.e. owned and controlled by) a nearby city.

(B) The purpose which Lagos island originally served (as widely remembered in the traditional narrative of Lagosians) shows that it was originally an “ereko” to Iddo island. [/s]

[/s]Till date, the name “ereko” manages to survive on that island. In fact, it remains the name of one of the areas on that island (i.e. Lagos island) even up until this very moment.

In the light of all the foregoing evidence, the name “Eko” (which has survived for Lagos-island) thus derives most certainly from the context of the original purpose to which it was first put prior to its conversion to a settlement of towns — i.e., “ereko”.

From the aforementioned trailblazing feat of Chief Aromire, this “Eko” island, thus came to be sometimes remembered after him. The alternative name for “Eko” (which highlight’s his feat) is known identify till this moment as: “Eko-Ar’omi-re”. [/s]

[s]
The difference he noted, however, results from his silence on which is older the Ijebus’s “Èkó” and the Dutch’s “Ichoo”. 

Yet, he used the comparative adjective “OLDER” specifically for the Portuguese’s “Curamo” in comparison with the Binis’s “Koráme”.

He makes it specifically clear that the Portugues’s “Curamo” is actually older than the Binis’s “Koráme”. [/s]

[s]By this year 1472 when Rui de Sequeira visited Lagos, he had since described and documented the area as “Lago de Curamo”. 

However, the word “Curamo” [unlike “Lago”] is not a native Portuguese word. This fact thus makes it clear that the Portuguese’s source for “Curamo” (c. 1472) is from their 1472 contact with Lagos itself.

The Portuguese’s “Curamo” is therefore recognizably derived from the already discussed alternative name for the island — that is, the Yorubas’s “Eko-Aromi-re”, meaning: Aromire’s Eko.[/s]
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The term "Lago de Curamo" means lakes of healing .....

Tao11
[s]1) It is indisputably and mutually agreed in both Lagos sources and Benin sources that the progenitor of the present dynasty of Eko is a certain man by the name Ashipa (spelt by Chief Egharevba as Esikpa).
2) While the above common ground is undeniable, the points of difference also exists. Lagos accounts identify this progenitor as a Yoruba chief (of Ife royal descent) from Isheri. 

The Benin accounts identify him as a son (or grandson) of a Benin king. This point of sharp difference is not to say that the Eko dynasty does not have any historical connection with the Benin kingdom.

The Eko dynasty certainly does have some point of historical connection with the Benin kingdom.[/s]

[s]This historical connection is noted in the Lagos account to be two folds, namely:

(A) Maternal Connection -- through Ashipa who married a Bini princess through whom his son, Ado, was born. 

Ado is said to have lived in Benin but was invited back to Lagos to rule after his father.
[/s]

[s]B) Political Connection – between Ashipa and the then Benin king whose subjects were living in one of the settlements on Lagos island. 
[/s]

[s]The details of this political connection, as contained in the Lagos records, state that Lagos island as a whole used to be under the control of the king of Iddo island (A. C. Burns, 1929:42-44).[/s]

[s]Ashipa -- being eager to establish a monarchy (which would be independent of Iddo’s control) on the island -- sought the support of the powerful king of Benin to fulfil his strong aspiration. (A. C. Burns, 1929:43).[/s]

[s]This arrangement proved successful, and thence did the king of Benin earn Ashipa’s unwavering loyalty — earning remittances as well as the honour of recognizing successive (patrilineal) Yoruba kings of the island. (Burns, 1929:43).[/s]

[s]The following four key points are to be stressed for the umpteenth time: 

(i) These foregoing Lagos accounts of the Benin/Lagos-island interaction are many decades earlier than Chief Egharevba’s contrary later-day reactive account.[/s]

[s](ii) There are no earlier records of Benin/Lagos-island interaction which touches specifically on the identity of Ashipa. 
[/s]

[s]iii) Neither are there any earlier records which identifies the reason for the strong loyalty of Lagos-island to the Benin king.[/s]

[s]Nor are there any earlier records which identifies the king who controlled the whole of the island prior to the present independent dynasty.[/s]

[s]The most that some of these earlier materials/letters do (just as the letter you’ve attached here) is that they simply allude to the strong loyalty by which the Lagos-island monarchy was bounded to the Benin kingdom[/s]

[s]The first writings to pinpoint the reason for this strong loyalty are the records of Lagos history published by the British authorities in 1878, 1914, and 1929.

And these records state that the basis of the observed strong loyalty of the Lagos island monarchy to the Benin king is rooted in a tie of “gratitude” (A. C. Burns, 1929:43).[/s]
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Etinosa1234:


With this explanation u have given here, is it not hypocrisy for u to assume that the word "Korame" as written by the French author was not the European spelling for Eko-amen?

Continue Reading Sha



Good to see u are learning hard against ur will... This means u are understanding ...

Well continue to read below to get a devastating refutation of ur remaining points



Irrespective of whether Ichoo is older or not, it was used rather to refer to Lagos and was most likely gotten from the Benin due to their Close association to the Benin more than the Ijebu


I see that u are already losing ground in this argument... Originally, in ur earlier post, u said

[sup}Formerly it was known as Eko, which name it had received before any settlements were made on the island.”[/sup]

https://www.nairaland.com/6365528/lagos-belongs-benin-obanikoros-grandson/19#98139439

Now u deliberately made changes to the quotation.... That's a clear sign of fear ..

Instead of working with this ur later quotation, I'll rather break down the earlier one because u are a strong proponent of the earlier the better ...

Now according to ur earlier qoutations, u believe that the land was named Eko by people who had not yet make any form of settlement on the land...

U are a big comedian guy ...

Now, if there was no form of settlement on that land, how did they get to name the land before they decided to settle on the land...... It also implies they never saw the land sef

This once again cast doubts on the debunked Alan Burns folktales


Rather, how about a complete breakdown of the word Eko from Benin...

The Eko in Benin can be derived from when Benin conquered Lagos in late 16th century and made it a base from where they controlled trade in that area...

It was originally Eko-amen because of the waters that surrounded it and was corrupted by the Europeans to Korame and the Yorubas to Eko...


Now that's the truth

...

U didn't use evidence rather u used ur language to make ur point while forgetting that the Benin had been present in Lagos and effected a lot of changes contrary to ur dead, weak and spineless Olofin regime and a suddenly new person who no one have heard except u...


Keep springing up lies

The fact remains, Eko was named by Benin



U are trying so hard to be cunning ... But lemme shock u, its not working ... Not on me tho......

Now... When D'Avesac made his comparison, there was no need for him to use the term older when referring to Dutch reports...

What he was actually comparing was the Portuguese and the Dutch term Not the Dutch and Ijebu word...

His use of the term older is to show that Curamo was older than all the terms there Esp the Dutch's own...

Its logical to know that the Dutch reports has been existing since before the 16th century ...way older before the term "Eko was first heard.....

In conclusion, The French author implied that the European terms were older than the African terms compared with...

The Dutch reports has always be existing before the term Eko was first heard...

The origin of the Dutch reports can be determined with proofs but not the Yorubas own which will at best be inflated by the arrogant Yorubas



Its safe to see that u are already making concessions in this argument... U have already dropped a point that korame was derived from curamo to this..


But I must say that this is an outright lie... A barefaced lie to say the least

You could have at least done ur research before telling this big lie... Maybe u thought u were conversing with ur fellow Yoruba zombies

Now..The term Curamo in Portuguese means cure...

The term "Lago de Curamo" means lakes of healing .....

Now the term Curamo which is said to derive from the Yoruba doesn't mean anything that aromire Eko means...

It is also older than the term Eko

U didn't even define the word to compare with Curamo which was supposedly borrowed from Yoruba.....

Even.if u did, it won't mean the same as it is in Portuguese
This brings us to the term "Loanword"

Loanword are words adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation. 

This meaning already implies that Loanword is borrowed without any changes to it... It might be corrupted due to pronouciation but it's meaning doesn't change...

I have given previous examples of borrowed words... Refer to it for ur understanding

In Conclusion:
1)The term Curamo is a Portugese word
2) Curamo was not derived from any Yoruba word


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TAO11:
First of all, you haven’t been able to put forward any lie that I didn’t debunk.

Secondly, I’m not sure why you’re insisting that the Ooni of Ife was responsible for saving Benin kingdom from perishing in 1897.

Thirdly, your Oba was a leader of the mid-Western region under the British influence — hence a slave sellout.

Remember his ancestor was banished to the evil forest in Calabar by the same British.

What kind of King gets banished from Benin into Calabar forest by the foot soldiers of another King??

Only a native doctor by the title Omonoba n’Edo.

I have debunked this dumb argumentum ex silentio hundreds of times. Try them only with your dumb folks.

Learn to recongnize the difference when I’m schooling you, okay? Good boy.

Now to debunking you:

The attachment was meant to prove one thing and one thing only — to demonstrate to that he was knighted, and hence the title “Sir”.

I predicted that you had no clue what “knight” means and then you confirmed that you truly have no clue.

Moreover, can you show me where a Benin king was called Omonoba — the title of Benin kings.

Or must we assume this to be another Benin fraud?

For every 1 “Omonoba” you show me, I will show you 3 “Oba” for the Ife king, and how is the apex Yoruba king.

Moreover, I have proven again and again how Benin borrowed the word “Oba” from Yoruba. See link below:

Binis Own The Word “Oba” ??
DEBUNKED:
https://www.nairaland.com/6234931/why-ikwerres-not-igbo-logic/15#96513655

The earliest known written usage of “Oba” for a Benin king was in the 1860s when Benin borrowed it from the Yorubas.

I have already presented an 1840s written usage of “Oba” for Yoruba monarchs.

Please explain to me again why you insist that the 1860s is earlier than the 1840s. LMAO!

Web2020:
You are talking from the two side of your mouth. You failed to talk about the war the great Binis wedge against the British when they invaded Benin to take away the Oba. The millions of British soldiers killed before the unfortunate incident of capturing the Oba. You shabbily stated that the Oba was banished. He was taken to Calabar and another Oba installed to avoid vacuum and with that he can not come to Benin kingdom because there can never be two Obas in Benin Kingdom.
Secondly, limit the use of the phrase "I have proven" what have you proven by simply giving your unverified opinion. The only Kingdom in Nigeria is Edo kingdom. The British knew it, they saw that Edo Kingdom was well Organized with all forms of administration. They were surprised and needed to conker the kingdom to be able to penetrate the territory.

Yebedervru:

Edo was never a kingdom. Stop disturbing yourself

A kingdom with 10 local governments. You can do better

Web2020:
You have no idea of the subject matter. This is beyond I have phone with data, therefore I can say anything i like.

Web2020:
You have no idea of the subject matter. This is beyond I have phone with data, therefore I can say anything i like.

Yebedervru:

Will you shut up Benin hoodlum. No sense

Now tell me if Edo is a kingdom indeed, why is Edo a minority tribe today? Why do the whole of Edo have small landmass? Why do we have different langauges in Edo state today if indeed your Edo is a kingdom ?

Web2020:
The bolded shows that you are a small boy and I repeat, you have no idea of the subject matter. Talking about size as a yardstick to defining a Kingdom further makes me give up on you. My advice for you: don't talk when you don't have idea of the topic because when ever you open your mouth to talk, you tell the world who you are.

christistruth01:

For the one thousandth time Oba of Lagos himself telling you with his own mouth at 5.45 Minutes "Benin are not the owners of Lagos'






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsp9VLRFno


Get over it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Web2020:
You are talking from the two side of your mouth. You failed to talk about the war the great Binis wedge against the British when they invaded Benin to take away the Oba. The millions of British soldiers killed before the unfortunate incident of capturing the Oba. You shabbily stated that the Oba was banished. He was taken to Calabar and another Oba installed to avoid vacuum and with that he can not come to Benin kingdom because there can never be two Obas in Benin Kingdom.
Secondly, limit the use of the phrase "I have proven" what have you proven by simply giving your unverified opinion. The only Kingdom in Nigeria is Edo kingdom. The British knew it, they saw that Edo Kingdom was well Organized with all forms of administration. They were surprised and needed to conker the kingdom to be able to penetrate the territory.

Web2020:
You are talking from the two side of your mouth. You failed to talk about the war the great Binis wedge against the British when they invaded Benin to take away the Oba. The millions of British soldiers killed before the unfortunate incident of capturing the Oba. You shabbily stated that the Oba was banished. He was taken to Calabar and another Oba installed to avoid vacuum and with that he can not come to Benin kingdom because there can never be two Obas in Benin Kingdom.
Secondly, limit the use of the phrase "I have proven" what have you proven by simply giving your unverified opinion. The only Kingdom in Nigeria is Edo kingdom. The British knew it, they saw that Edo Kingdom was well Organized with all forms of administration. They were surprised and needed to conker the kingdom to be able to penetrate the territory.

gregyboy:



Lol, it doesn't change the fact benin ruled entire Yoruba people and the whole of lagos in the past

Obalufon:
Millions of British soldiers killed before capturing your King are you kidding me "Crack head" one thousand Soldiers of British Royal army laid waste to entire Benin kingdom without any casualty of their part..Oba was smoked out of his hiding hole like bush rat ,caged ,chained and exported to calabar

gregyboy:


Without any causualties, on their part


Now you're the one in dillusions,


Even with their heavy weapons they were crushed the 1200 soldiers died and they brought in recruit to the battle field


Hausa igbo and Yoruba recruit

Causualties wasnt recorded, the war didn't end because Benin soldiers had fallen, the war ended because the oba came out from hiding and surrender


Two great kingdom fought not some petty guerilla warfare, a war that involved machine guns, submarine, and even documented letters

The same forces used to conquer benin, was moved the next month to conquer the anshanti kingdom,

gregyboy:


Without any causualties, on their part


Now you're the one in dillusions,


Even with their heavy weapons they were crushed the 1200 soldiers died and they brought in recruit to the battle field


Hausa igbo and Yoruba recruit

Causualties wasnt recorded, the war didn't end because Benin soldiers had fallen, the war ended because the oba came out from hiding and surrender


Two great kingdom fought not some petty guerilla warfare, a war that involved machine guns, submarine, and even documented letters

The same forces used to conquer benin, was moved the next month to conquer the anshanti kingdom,

Obalufon:



You people are sick and dillusional No british soldier die on the expendition slowpoke ,,you were smoked out within a day ,,Bitish sent only 1200 soldiers to annihilate your shit hole of a kingdom,.Kingdom of Ape i bet you've watched the movie numbskull