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The British razed and looted the Benin Kingdom as revenge.

British soldiers in Benin during the expedition.

The expedition of the Benin Kingdom happened in 1897 by a British military group led by Admiral Sir Harry Rawson.
The group was 1,200 strong and the expedition was a response to the ambush of the Acting Consul General James Phillips led group. The ambush was deadly and only two people survived.

In November 1896, Phillips wrote a letter to his superiors in England for permission to invade the kingdom of Benin. When he didn't get a response he decided to invade Benin on his own in December of that year.

The British after the expedition of Benin
The British after the expedition of Benin (Facebook)
Acting Consul General James Philips travelled to Benin with 250 African soldiers, two Niger Coast Protectorate Force officers, a medical officer, and two trading agents. The African soldiers posed as porters and members of a musical band.

Philips believed he would get rid of the Oba of Benin and replace him with a Native Council. He also believed that the ivory at the Oba's palace would pay for his military expedition.

Philips and his party would get a rude shock. Trading chiefs in Itsekiri had alerted the Benin Kingdom that Philips and his men were on there way. A strike force led by Ologbosere, a senior army commander in Benin ambushed Philips and his men on January 4, 1897. It was a bloodbath as only two men came out alive.

This piece of bad news swiftly got to London. On 12 January 1897, the British Admiralty instructed Rear-Admiral Harry Rawson to lead an expedition to Benin and level the city.

Rawson took 1,200 Royal Marines on this mission. The British got their revenge as they burnt houses and palaces and looted the kingdom. Monuments and artifacts were taken from palaces and the homes of high ranking chiefs and transported to Britain.

British forces invading Benin
British forces invading Benin (weebly)
Many of these artifacts are still in Britain.

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8Ghost Ship ‘Baychimo’ Was Abandoned In 1931 And Has Been Sailing The Seas Unmanned Ever Since
When someone says “ghost ship,” visions of the cursed Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean come to my mind.

In reality, a ghost ship doesn’t actually refer to a ship infested by the souls of the dead. Although, it could if you believe in those kinds of things!

Rather, a ghost ship, or a phantom ship, is one with no living crew aboard that nonetheless continues to sail the seas. The only thing deciding where it goes is the water itself.

How is this possible? Well, the many ocean currents help to move any floating device along even if there’s no one onboard to steer or navigate.

There have been many famous ghost ships throughout history. Some are fictional, like the Flying Dutchman, while others are fact, like the SS Baychimo — which could still be sailing the oceans to this very day.


According to Historic Mysteries, the Baychimo was originally built in 1914 and intended to be used on trade routes between Hamburg and Sweden.
The cargo steamer was built to be 230 feet long and weigh 1,322 tons.


The ship was initially German-owned. As part of WWI reparations, its ownership was transferred to England.
The Baychimo would go on to be used by the Hudson’s Bay Company, sailing trade routes in and around Canada and the Arctic.


Starting in 1921, the Hudson’s Bay Company used the Baychimo to transport valuable furs from Northern Canada back to Scotland, where she as based at the time.
As you can imagine, the areas where the pelts were collected from the trappers — typically Inuit — were extremely remote and difficult to survive in.


On October 1, 1931, during a routine voyage, the Baychimo became trapped due to a surprise blizzard that locked her into the frozen sea.
The crew remained there, unable to move for over two weeks. On October 15, half of the crew was airlifted out.


The rest of the crew set up a temporary camp on the ice, near the very remote Pole Island, shown above by the red pin on the map.
The conditions worsened, and the crew’s temporary camp became more permanent — especially on the night of November 24, when the crew lost sight of the ship in the blizzard.

When they woke, the Baychimo was nowhere to be seen. The crew understandably assumed she had sunk.


However, when a hunter told the captain that he saw the Baychimo a few weeks later, the crew set out to find her.
When they did, they noticed significant damage and thought that she wouldn’t be seaworthy. They took the pelts and headed to civilization.


Amazingly, the Baychimo would continue to sail the polar seas unmanned for a number of years.
It was seen a number of times by Eskimos and other ships throughout the 1930s.

The last time the Baychimo was sighted, however, was over 30 years later, in 1969. Allegedly, it was once again stuck in an ice pack.


Although she hasn’t been seen since 1969, in 2006 the state of Alaska did initiate an effort to find the mysterious, wandering ship.
Do you think she’s still out there?

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A Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor was killed at the hours of Sunday by suspected members of the Badoo ritual gang.

His wife and 10-month-old baby were said to have been found unconscious and rushed to Ikorodu General Hospital by policemen from Igbogbo Division.

The attack occurred few hours after acting Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal met with all stakeholders at the palace of the Ikorodu monarch, Oba Abdulrasheed Shotobi on the menace of ritual killings.

It was gathered that the assailants smashed the head of the pastor identified as Victor Kanayo with two big stones, which were said to have been found beside him.

The Nation gathered that the murderers cut the iron bars on the window of the bungalow the family lived in before entering the house.

This is coming on the heels of several efforts by the police to contain the resurgence of the badoo killings which died down after massive raids of several shrines in Agbowa and Imota axis suspected to be the base of the cultists.

According to sources, the pastor and his family were the only ones living in the building because the landlord moved out some months ago as a result of increased insecurity.

The source said: “The pastor was an easy going person. His wife and child are unconscious as I speak to you. They were rushed the general hospital. The police took them them.

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