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In November 1892, after two years of skirmishes between French colonialist troops and the African kingdom of Danxomè (also known as Dahomey), several hundred soldiers led by the French-Senegalese general Alfred-Amédée Dodds marched into its fabled capital, today the city of Abomey in Benin. Its colossal fortified red-earth palaces were found semi-abandoned; the great King Béhanzin, said to have descended from the coupling of a leopard and a Tado princess, had fled with his court.
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