"Aro men clearing bush paths with machetes for British forces outside Bende during the Anglo-Aro War (1901)" The Aro Punitive Expedition, also known as the Anglo-Aro War, was a British military campaign against the Aro-Oke-Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria from 1901 to 1902. The Aro-Igbo resisted British colonization fiercely, engaging in over 300 battles spanning twenty years…