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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 2801124, member: 22&quot;]Did the Benin museum explain why the looting took place ?</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1897, British troops marched on Benin City, the capital of the fabled West African kingdom of Benin, ruled over by a powerful Oba. The attack was called a &quot;punitive expedition&quot; because it was a retaliatory response to the Oba having massacred a British delegation of eight officials, two traders and local escorts the previous month.</p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t just the nasty British though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The French, under Napoleon’s rule looted and pillaged all over Europe and the princely states, Venice, Florence, Vatican and Prussia until his defeat in 1815.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its the spoils of war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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