Dahomey Conquers Allada
August 1724
King Agaja of Dahomey stormed the coastal kingdom of Allada, seizing its trade routes and slave ports. Two years later he would take Whydah. Dahomey's female warriors - the Mino, whom Europeans called Amazons - fought in the vanguard. A West African military state was building itself on war and the Atlantic slave trade.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.