Editing Dahomey (section)

===Portugal===
The Portuguese fort at [[Ouidah]] was destroyed by the army of Dahomey in 1743 during its conquest of the city, so King [[Tegbesu]] desired to renew relations with Portugal.<ref name="araujo">{{cite journal |last1=Araujo |first1=Ana Lucia |title=Dahomey, Portugal and Bahia: King Adandozan and the Atlantic Slave Trade |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144039X.2011.604562 |journal=Slavery & Abolition |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1080/0144039X.2011.604562 |date=March 1, 2012|volume=33 |s2cid=143942068 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>  Dahomey sent at least five embassies to Portugal and Brazil during the years of 1750, 1795, 1805, 1811 and 1818, with the goal of negotiating the terms of the Atlantic slave trade. These missions created an official correspondence between the kings of Dahomey and the kings of Portugal, and gifts were exchanged between them. The Portuguese Crown paid for the expenses travel and accommodation expenses of Dahomey's ambassadors, who traveled between [[Lisbon]] and [[Salvador, Bahia]]. The embassies of 1805 and 1811 brought letters from King [[Adandozan]], who had imprisoned Portuguese subjects in the Dahomean capital of [[Abomey]] and requested for Portugal to trade exclusively at Ouidah. Portugal promised to answer to his demands if he released the prisoners.<ref name="araujo"/>

A long and detailed letter from King Adandonzan dated October 9, 1810, shows that he had knowledge of the [[Napoleonic Wars]] and the subsequent [[Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil|exile of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil]], and he expressed remorse that he was not able to help the Portuguese royal family during their war against France.<ref name="araujo"/>{{blockquote|text=Soon the news that Your Royal Majesty and all the Royal family were made prisoners of the French, who took [[Lisbon]], as well as the King of Spain, started arriving. Some time passed and another vessel came and brought other news that Your Royal Majesty and Our Sovereign Mother Queen of Portugal had left for the City of Bahia, under the protection of the English and the Portuguese Navy. Then more time passed and another vessel brought news that you have moved to [[Rio de Janeiro]], where we know that the Duke of Cadaval deceased, for which I feel sorry
and give you my condolences...what I feel the most is to no longer be the neighbour of Our Majesty, and not being able to walk on firm land to give you a help with my arm, so my wish is big, as here I have also fought many wars in the backlands.}} After detailing how he defeated the king of the Mahi nation, Adandonzan tells the Portuguese,<ref name="araujo"/>
{{blockquote|text=...Give me also news about the Wars, and also give me news about the wars with the French nation and the others, it will make me happy to know about it}}