Editing Dahomey (section)

===France===
{{main|First Franco-Dahomean War|Second Franco-Dahomean War}}
[[File:Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg|thumb|In 1894, the last King of Dahomey, [[Béhanzin]], surrendered his person to [[Alfred-Amédée Dodds]]]]
In 1861, the kingdom of [[Porto-Novo]], one of Dahomey's tributaries, was bombarded by the [[Royal Navy]].<ref name = "alpern">{{cite book |last1=Alpern |first1=Stanley B. |title=Amazons of Black Sparta : the women warriors of Dahomey : with a new preface |date=2011 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0814707722}}</ref> Porto-Novo asked for protection from France and became a French protectorate as a result in 1863. This status was rejected by King [[Behanzin]], who still declared Porto-Novo to be a tributary of Dahomey. Another issue of contention was the status of [[Cotonou]], a port the French believed was under their control because of a treaty signed by Dahomey's representative in [[Ouidah|Whydah]]. Dahomey ignored all French claims there as well and continued to collect customs from the port. These territorial disputes escalated into the [[First Franco-Dahomean War]] in 1890, resulting in French victory. Dahomey was forced to sign a treaty surrendering Porto-Novo and Cotonou to the French. It later returned to raiding the area and disregarded French complaints, triggering the [[Second Franco-Dahomean War]] in 1892. The kingdom was defeated in 1894, it was annexed into the [[French colonial empire]] as [[French Dahomey]], and King Behanzin was exiled to [[Algeria]].