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Ralph Moor
Sir Ralph Moor was a British colonial administrator who served as commissioner of the Niger Coast Protectorate from 1896 and then as the first high commissioner of the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria from 1900 to 1903. He organised the punitive expedition of 1897 that sacked Benin City and ended the independence of the Benin Empire.
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