File:Interior of Oba's compound burnt during siege of Benin City, 1897.jpg

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Interior of Oba's compound burnt during siege of Benin City (present day Nigeria) , with bronze plaques in the foreground and three British soldiers of the Benin Punative Expedition 9-18 February 1897

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English: Interior of Oba's compound burnt during seige of Benin City (present day Nigeria) , with bronze plaques in the foreground and three British soldiers of the Benin Punative Expedition 9-18 February 1897. Photographer Reginald Granville.
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Source http://photoclec.dmu.ac.uk/content/colonial-photographs
Author Reginald Kerr Granville (d.1912)

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