#ONTHISDAY 18 February 1897 after much fighting, the like of which the British have never seen, Benin is taken in the late evening. Roth recorded, 'I have never seen anything like it before;'.
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This is a good read touching on issues like:
Comradeship: 'I wish I could express here what I saw the men must have felt for one another. The whole thing was most heartrending.'
Loyalty: 'it was impossible for us to get any guides, and we had to rely for the path which led to Benin on two human beings—one being a dumb man and the other a small slave boy,' - F.Roth (Expedition surgeon).
Read the account here --->
This is a good read touching on issues like:
Comradeship: 'I wish I could express here what I saw the men must have felt for one another. The whole thing was most heartrending.'
Loyalty: 'it was impossible for us to get any guides, and we had to rely for the path which led to Benin on two human beings—one being a dumb man and the other a small slave boy,' - F.Roth (Expedition surgeon).