- and a statesmen." The
kingdom fought the
First Franco-
Dahomean War and
Second Franco-
Dahomean War with France. The
kingdom was
reduced and made a French...
- The
Dahomean religion was
practiced by the Fon
people of the
Dahomey Kingdom. The
kingdom existed until 1898 in what is now the
country of Benin. People...
- The Mino parti****ted in one
major battle: Cotonou,
where thousands of
Dahomeans (including many Mino)
charged the
French lines and
engaged the defenders...
-
French further justified the
annexation of
Dahomey by
characterizing the
Dahomeans as
savages in need of civilizing, and
pointing to the
human sacrifice...
- The Fon people, also
called Dahomeans, Fon nu,
Agadja and
historically called Jeji (Djedji) by the
Yoruba in the
South American diaspora and in colonial...
- The Franco-
Dahomean Wars were a
series of
military conflicts including:
First Franco-
Dahomean War (1890), that
pitted the
Kingdom of
Dahomey against the...
- A
light deity is a god or
goddess in
mythology ****ociated with
light and/or day.
Since stars give off light, star
deities can also be
included here. The...
-
leader of the all-female
regiment of warriors, the Agojie,
liberates Dahomean women who were
abducted by
slavers from the Oyo Empire. This
provokes King...
- The
Second Franco-
Dahomean War,
which raged from 1892 to 1894, was a
major conflict between France, led by
General Alfred-Amédée Dodds, and
Dahomey under...
- over land, tenants, and
lineage members. This
provoked a
struggle among Dahomeans, "concentrated in the
period from 1895 to 1920, for the redistribution...
