AFRICA: A. D. 1896 (Rhodesia). Matabele revolt. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (RHODESIA): A. D. 1896 (MARCH-SEPTEMBER). AFRICA: A. D. 1896 (Zanzibar). Suppression of an usurper by the British. On the sudden death (supposed to be from poison) of the Sultan of Zanzibar, August 25, his cousin, Said Khalid, seized the palace and proclaimed himself sultan. Zanzibar being an acknowledged protectorate of Great Britain, the usurper was summoned by the British consul to surrender. He refused, and the palace was bombarded by war vessels in the harbor, with such effect that the palace was speedily destroyed and about 500 of its inmates killed. Khalid fled to the German consul, who protected him and had him conveyed to German territory. A new sultan, Said Hamud-bin-Mahomed was at once proclaimed. AFRICA: A. D. 1896-1899 (The Transvaal). Controversies with the British Government. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (THE TRANSVAAL): A. D. 1896 (JANUARY-APRIL), to 1899 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER). AFRICA: A. D. 1897 (Congo Free State). Mutiny of troops. The Congo troops of an expedition led by Baron Dhanis mutinied and murdered a number of Belgian officers. Subsequently they were attacked in the neighborhood of Lake Albert Edward Nyanza and mostly destroyed. AFRICA: A. D. 1897 (Dahomey and Tongoland). Definition of boundary. By a convention concluded in July between Germany and France, the boundary between German possessions in Tongoland and those of France in Dahomey and the Sudan was defined. AFRICA: A. D. 1897 (Nigeria). Massacre at Benin. British expedition. Capture of the town. See (in this volume) NIGERIA: A. D. 1897. AFRICA: A. D. 1897 (Nigeria). Subjugation of Fulah slave-raiders. In January and February, the forces of the Royal Niger Company successfully invaded the strong Fulah states of Nupé and Ilorin, from which slave raiding in the territory under British protection was carried on. Bida, the Nupé capital, was entered on the 27th of January, after a battle in which 800 Hausa troops, led by European officers, and using heavy artillery, drove from the field an army of cavalry and foot estimated at 30,000 in number. The Emir of Nupé was deposed, another set up in his place, and a treaty signed which established British rule. The Emir of Ilorin submitted after his town had been bombarded, and bowed himself to British authority in his government. At the same time, a treaty settled the Lagos frontier. Later in the year, the stronghold at Kiffi of another slave-raider, Arku, was stormed and burned. [Image: Map of Africa] {3} AFRICA: A. D. 1897 (Orange Free State and Transvaal). Treaty defensive between the two republics. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (ORANGE FREE STATE AND TRANSVAAL): A. D. 1897 (APRIL).