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The Treaty of Cession, 6 August 1861 or the Lagos Treaty of Cession was a treaty between the British Empire and Oba Dosunmu of Lagos (spelt 'Docemo' in English documents) wherein Dosunmu, under the threat of military bombardment, ceded Lagos Island to Britain, whilst retaining the title and powers of Oba, subject to English laws.

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Lagos Treaty of Cession

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The Treaty of Cession, 6 August 1861 or the Lagos Treaty of Cession was a treaty between the British Empire and Oba Dosunmu of Lagos (spelt 'Docemo' in...

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Lagos Colony

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the cession for 11 days while facing the threat of violence on Lagos and its people, but capitulated and signed the Lagos Treaty of Cession. Lagos was...

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Lagos State

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Oba and signing a treaty that established Lagos as being under British protection. Ten years later, the forced Lagos Treaty of Cession led to the formal...

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History of Lagos

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Treaty of Cession on 6 August 1861. Lagos was declared a colony on 5 March 1862 but governed by the Gold Coast, modern day Ghana. In 1886, Lagos became a...

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Dosunmu

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terms of the treaty but under the threat to unleash violence on Lagos by Commander Bedingfield, Dosunmu relented and signed the Lagos Treaty of Cession. Some...

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Nigeria

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Great Britain and Lagos on 1 January 1852. Britain annexed Lagos as a crown colony in August 1861 with the Lagos Treaty of Cession. British missionaries...

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Colonial Nigeria

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interests. Lagos was annexed as a Crown Colony in 1861 via the Lagos Treaty of Cession. British expansion accelerated in the last decades of the nineteenth...

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Timeline of Nigerian history

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Nigeria Timelines of cities in Nigeria: Ibadan, Kano, Lagos, Port Harcourt J.F. Ade. Ajayi and Ian Espie (1965). A Thousand Years of West African History...

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August 6

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Declaration of Independence is proclaimed. 1861 – Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria. 1862 – American Civil...

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William McCoskry

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McCoskry entered into a treaty (The Lagos Treaty of Cession) on behalf of the Queen of Great Britain with "Docemo" (Dosunmu), King of Lagos. Dosunmu transferred...

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List of treaties

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known as the Treaty of Tudején. Also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster. Also known as the First Treaty of Constance. Also...

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John Hawley Glover

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weakened Oba of Lagos, Dosunmu who ceded Lagos to Britain in August 1861 under the Lagos Treaty of Cession. In return, Glover's cultivated network of Lagosian...

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Eshugbayi Eleko

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the head of 17 million Nigerian and that the Eleko, whose grand father (Oba Dosunmu) ceded Lagos to the British via the Lagos Treaty of Cession in 1861...

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War of the Pacific

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reaching a peace deal with Chile involving territorial cessions. Chile and Peru signed the Treaty of Ancón on October 20, 1883. Bolivia signed a truce with...

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Oyekan I

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the 1861 Treaty of Cession. Oba Oyekan died on Tuesday, September 30, 1900 after being ill for some time. He reigned for 15 years as Oba of Lagos. Folami...

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Badagry

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Local Government Area (LGA) in Lagos State, Nigeria. It is quite close to the city of Lagos, and located on the north bank of Porto Novo Creek, an inland...

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History of Nigeria

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terms of the treaty, but under the threat of having Commander Bedingfield bombard Lagos, he relented and signed the Lagos Cession Treaty. Lagos proved...

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Crown Colony of North Borneo

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Borneo Utara) was the position created by the British Government upon the cession of North Borneo from the North Borneo Chartered Company. The appointment...

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Unification of Italy

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piemontese incaricato alle trattative" (translation: "The cession of Veneto – memories of the piedmontese commissary for the negotiations"). Academic...

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Bulgaria during World War I

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Stipulations included the return of all occupied territories, the cession of additional territories and the payment of heavy war reparations. When Bulgaria...

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List of wars involving Chile

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course of the Pacific War, the United States intervened diplomatically in favor of Peru and Bolivia, trying to avoid the territorial cession in favor of Chile...

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List of divided islands

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and the Colony of Newfoundland and then the Dominion of Newfoundland beginning with the cession of the Rupert's Land to the Dominion of Canada in 1870...

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Foreign relations of Russia

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Allies agreed to the cession of the islands to the USSR. However, this stipulation was not included in the treaty of Capitulation of Japan which later gave...

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