The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a British force of 1,200 men under Sir Harry Rawson in response to the ambush of a previous British party under Acting Consul General James Phillips, of the Niger Coast Protectorate. Rawson's troops captured and sacked Benin City, bringing to an end the Kingdom of Benin, which was eventually absorbed into colonial Nigeria.

British may refer to: . Peoples, culture, and language. British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.. Britishness, the British identity and common culture; British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles; Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno ...