Bonny civil war; approximately 300 pro-Pepple supporters killed

In 1855 full-scale civil war broke out in Bonny between the royalist (pro-Pepple) and anti-monarchist (pro-Alali) factions. Approximately 300 supporters of the Pepple cause were killed. The civil war devastated Bonny's trading infrastructure: warehouses were looted, the king's hoard of dollars and doubloons was stolen, and commercial activity was severely disrupted. The conflict arose directly from the power vacuum created by Pepple's exile the previous year.