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The dawn broke over the Bight of Benin with a cold, grey light,

as the engines of empire prepared to strike. Into the heart of the great

forest they marched, an iron column cutting through the dense and timeless green.

For the people of the interior, the silence of the woods was broken by a

sound they had never heard before. History would record it as a punitive expedition; the

survivors, however, would remember only the fire.