What the records say
- When
- 1885
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Lagos
- Coordinates
- 6.45° N, 3.40° E
- Process
- conquest
- Type
- Conquest (armed force)
- Pop
- 24000000
- Area km2
- 898000
- Gaining
- United Kingdom
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Lagos Colony
British colony and protectorate from 1862 to 1906
Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of HMS Prometheus who was accompanied by the Acting British Consul, William McCoskry.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation