-taken over with assistance of slave trader De Sousa

-amplification of slave trade despite French and later British opposition

-in particular this makes French in Lagos their heavy opponents

-makes Dahomey Amazons powerful entity

-successfully takes Abeokuta, helped by chaos of Sokoto's expansion southwards

-this is in part due to Anglo-French suppression of slave trade

-in the end dies of old age in prosperous realm

-with slave trade suppressed by French thanks to victory in France's Wars > Franco-Portuguese War (1871-2) economy diminishes

-results in Glele forced to expand country outwards to get money and new plantations

-this succeeds

-with state having stopped expanding it increasingly exploits its own subjects

-results in growing instability

-this guy

-slave revolt headed by Vodun hungans overthrows Dahomey's government

-ends up fleeing to Lagos to avoid getting killed

-leads an army of subjects which successfully overthrows the kingdom

-establishes a Vodun peasant republic

-Ewe subject peoples successfully break off

-with support from Germans who want influence

-French palm oil interests in Lagos form a private army and march on Dahomey to restore the monarchy in alliance with old monarchical elites

-achieve successes in this era

-however when word of this comes to France proper there's a backlash

-as this is viewed as supporting a royalist entity against republicans and this comes to an end

-overthrows Vieyra and makes himself Chief Hungan