1897 and started overland for Benin City. A volley of shots rang out when a Mr. Locke bent over to tie his shoelaces. All but two men in the party were brutally slaughtered. By Feb. 17 ...

Fred Itua, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday in Benin City. Itua added ... colonial forces during the 1897 Benin massacre.

Benin City is at least four miles wide ... but the British insisted on their right to trade. In 1897, a group of British officials tried to visit Benin. They were sent away because the Oba ...