Oyo Empire gunshots scared the Oyo cavalry horses and prevented their charging. Dahomey's army also built fortifications such as trenches, which forced the Oyo army to fight as infantry. The battle lasted four days, but the Yoruba were eventually victorious after reinforcements arrived. Dahomey was forced to pay tribute to Oyo. The Yoruba invaded Dahomey seven times before finally subjugating the small kingdom in 1748. With its cavalry, Oyo campaigned successfully in conquest and suppression over great distances. The Oyo army was able to attack defensive fortifications, but it was harder to supply an army, and they withdrew when supplies ran out.
History of the Yoruba people to earth. They became popular with their trading with the Portuguese, which gave them guns for their trade. The Yoruba people were invaded by the Fulani which pushed the people to the South. In the late 1800's, they formed a treaty with the Fulani people and were colonized with the British in 1901. The people who lived in Yorubaland, at least by the seventh century BC, were not initially known as the Yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity and language group. The historical Yoruba develop "in situ", out of earlier (Mesolithic) Volta-Niger populations, by the 1st millennium BC. Archaeologically,