Militarized Fon kingdom of the Slave Coast, famed for its female 'Amazon' regiments.
The Kingdom of Dahomey was conquered by French forces in the Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892–1894); King Béhanzin surrendered on 15 January 1894 and was deported to Martinique, after which Dahomey was proclaimed a French protectorate (29 January 1895) and later French Dahomey colony, becoming independent as the Republic of Benin in 1960.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Kingdom of Dahomey — the shape you scrub through changes in 1600 · 1832.
Alpern's accessible history of Dahomey's women soldiers and, through them, the Fon kingdom's court, army, and Slave Coast wars.
Robin Law's scholarly study of the kingdom of Dahomey's long entanglement with, and eventual exit from, the Atlantic slave trade.