page_title: Second Franco-Dahomean War
section_title: End of the war
hierarchical_section_title: Second Franco-Dahomean War / End of the war
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Medaille_du_Dahomey_Loi_du_12_Novembre_1892
context_page_description: The Second Franco-Dahomean War, which raged from 1892 to 1894, was a major conflict between the French Third Republic, led by General Alfred-Amédée Dodds, and the Kingdom of Dahomey under King Béhanzin.
  The French emerged triumphant and incorporated Dahomey into their growing colonial territory of French West Africa.
context_section_description: On the 5 November Dahomey sent a truce mission to the French, and the next day saw the French enter Cana. The peace mission failed, however, and on the 16 November, the French army marched on Abomey. King Béhanzin, refusing to let the capital fall into enemy hands, burned and evacuated the city. He and the remnants of the Dahomey army fled north as the French entered the capital on the 17 November. The French tricolor was hoisted over the Singboji palace, which survived the fire and remains in modern Benin to this day.
  The king of Dahomey fled to Atcheribé, 48 km (30 mi) north of the capital. Attempts were initiated to rebuild the army and its Amazon Corps until the French chose Béhanzin's brother, Goutchili, as the new king. King Béhanzin surrendered to the French on the 15 January 1894 and was exiled to Martinique. The war had officially ended.
caption: French Medal of the Dahomey campaign. Law of 12 November 1892. Musée de la Légion d'Honneur.
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