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+"Some dates for the battles are pertinent. Colonel Dodds, who had refu
+to answer letters from Behanzin proposing negotiation (Le Herisse,
+: 345), led his expeditionary force out of Porto Novo on 11 September
+. On the 20th occurred the first engagement with a Dahomey force at
+Dogba; then from the 27th to the 29th, the first crossing of the river Oueme
+and a battle for Poguessa (Kphoghessa, in Le Herisse, 1911; Kpokisa in
+Maupoil, 1943; Pokissa in Cornevin, 1962) and, here, the first encounter
+with amazons, of whom more than thirty died on 2 October (Schelameur,
+:104). On 12 October, battle at Oumbouemedi and, on the 13th,
+Dahomian camp at Akpa attacked, fighting continuing until the 20th, when
+'a bayonet charge by the Hausa riflemen ejected them from the village of
+Akpa' (Cornevin, 1962: 354); then, on the 26th, the French entered Kotok-
+pa after repeated counter-attacks by Dahomians, including amazons, met
+again by bayonets. On 2 November, after a fierce battle for Ouakan, Dodds
+camped under the walls of the palace. The next day the Dahomians coun-
+ter-attacked and regained the palace. On the 4th Behanzin led the remnants
+of the royal army, the elephant hunters, the amazons, prisoners taken out
+the evening before from the cells of Abomey, in a last great battle. His
+forces were dislodged by the bayonet from the palace of Djokoue and the
+expeditionary force encamped at the outskirts of Kana. This is probably
+that 'most bitter fight against the amazons' in the words of Mercier, above,
+and these the amazons raised by Behanzin" (Morton-Williams 113-114)

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