Ramteen Arablui
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199 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Aug
Ramteen Arablui’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, the British Prime Minister basically left Phillips on read for several weeks. Still, Phillips was an ambitious young man and he decided to send a letter to Benin's king requesting a meeting.
And he does this even though he'd already made it clear in his letter to the British Prime Minister that he wanted to depose Benin's king.
And Phillips gets a response.
Phillips' party, in their confusion, thought they were being welcomed by soldiers from the Benin Kingdom. In fact, Phillips told his men not to get out their revolvers. This was a mistake because soon they were facing a hail of ammunition.
A surviving British officer recounted a chaotic scene of gunfire and machetes.
It was carnage.
The exact numbers of dead are still to this day unclear. But it's thought that most of the Europeans in Phillips' party were killed along with many of the African workers they'd hired. Word quickly got back to England. Newspapers there called it a massacre.
But the damage was done.
Just weeks after Phillips' party was ambushed in Benin, the British government prepared for a revenge attack. It would come to be called the Punitive Expedition. A very large force with hundreds of sailors and soldiers was amassed. A flotilla of ships was stocked with heavy weaponry.
Think of a small cannon.
Machine guns.
Early form of a rocket launcher.
As much mine as it is yours.
This is an account from a naval officer who took part in the punitive expedition.
They set off in three columns, attacking villages along the way.
Weapons that were not used by most West African forces.
Over the course of nine days, the British violently ripped through the rainforest and zeroed in on Benin City.
Eventually, the British soldiers arrived in the heart of the kingdom.
This is Dan Hicks again, author of The Brutish Museums.
After the attack, the British forces did as they wished, including... The British built themselves a golf course, never mind other things.
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