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The Benin Expedition of 1897 was the invasion of the Kingdom of Benin by a British force of 1,200 men under Sir Harry Rawson. It came in response to an ambush by Benin forces which killed 250 members of a party led by British Acting Consul General James Phillips of the Niger Coast Protectorate. Rawson's troops captured Benin City with minimal losses, while an unknown number of Benin people were killed. African porters who had been captured in the initial ambush and enslaved were freed. The expedition resulted in the looting of cultural artefacts, including the Benin Bronzes, the exile of the leader of Benin, Ovonramwen, and the annexation of Benin into colonial Nigeria. The Benin Bronzes, which are currently mostly held by the British Museum, later became a symbol of an incomplete decolonisation of Africa.
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