Note 78 — Chapter XV
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Mr. T. B. Freeman (1842) set down the number at 65,000. The official figure of King Gezo’s army when he attacked Abeokuta (1851), and that which will be adopted in history, is 16,000 Dahomans, viz., 10,000 men, and the rest women, against 8,000 Egbas. For the whim of truth the numbers should be inverted; but this would rob the “deliverance” of its “providential” element.