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    First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern-day Zimbabwe. It pitted the British South Africa Company against the Ndebele (Matabele)...
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    The Second Matabele War, also known as the First Chimurenga, was fought between 1896 and 1897 in the region that later became Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)...
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  • The Matabele War may refer to: The First Matabele War (1893) The Second Matabele War (1896–97); also called the Matabeleland Rebellion or the First Chimurenga...
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    the larger state of Rhodesia. It was in Matabeleland during the Second Matabele War that Robert Baden-Powell, who later became the founder of the Scout Movement...
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    over them as Moremi settled for a period at nearby Nokaneng. The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern-day Zimbabwe. The British...
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    Battle of the Shangani (category Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa)
    The Battle of the Shangani took place on 25 October 1893 during the First Matabele War in what is now Zimbabwe. A British South Africa Company column led...
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    they conquered Mashonaland and later in 1893 Matabeleland after the First Matabele War. Company rule ended in 1923 with the establishment of Southern Rhodesia...
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    did much to bring about the Second Boer War and the Second Matabele War. The Second Matabele War—or the First Chimurenga, as it is often called in modern...
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    Lobengula (category People of the First Matabele War)
    last official king of the Northern Ndebele people (historically called Matabele in English). Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long...
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    Battle of Bembezi (category Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa)
    The Battle of Bembezi (1 November 1893) was an engagement of the First Matabele War, between the British South Africa Company and the Ndebele Kingdom....
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    been engaged in the First Matabele War. In 1897, the award was extended to those engaged in the two campaigns of the Second Matabele War, namely Rhodesia...
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    prior British South Africa Company Medals issued for the First Matabele War and Second Matabele War, except that it was struck without any campaign details...
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    Colonial War Rhodesia and weapons of mass destruction Rhodesian Armoured Corps Second Matabele War, officially known within Zimbabwe as the First Chimurenga...
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  • kaMatshobana. While the Mthwakazi Kingdom ended in 1894 with the First Matabele War, The house has endured to the present day. It is believed that the...
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  • First Matabele War First Messenian War First Mithridatic War First Northern War First Opium War First Peloponnesian War First Perso-Turkic war First Punic...
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    of the Transvaal, where the gold mines were located. He launched the Matabele wars, to encircle the Boer republics. Then in 1895 he engineered the infamous...
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    captured by British South Africa Company soldiers during the First Matabele War. That year, the first white settlers arrived and rebuilt the town. The town was...
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    annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in pre-Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), during the First Matabele War. Headed by Major Allan Wilson,...
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    concession as well. Company troops conquered Matabeleland during the First Matabele War of 1893–1894, and Lobengula died from smallpox in exile soon after...
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  • Uwini (category People of the First Matabele War)
    Forest about 80 miles from Bulawayo in 1896. Robert Baden-Powell: The Matabele-Campaign 1896. - Online-Ausgabe in Englisch Free download from http://www...
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    Leander Starr Jameson (category People of the First Matabele War)
    Administrator of Mashonaland. In 1893, Jameson was a key figure in the First Matabele War and involved in incidents that led to the massacre of the Shangani...
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  • faced sustained internal opposition in the Rhodesian Bush War. After fifteen years of war, following the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 there was...
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    replace the Matabele kingdom and then overcome resistance of the Shona north of the Limpopo river in the First Matabele War and Second Matabele War. It was...
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  • Rhodes provoked the neighbouring Ndebele into war, and the BSAP defeated them in the First Matabele War (1893–94). Lobengula won the battle of the Shangani...
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    British South Africa Police (category Military units and formations of Rhodesia in the Bush War)
    Dublin. The unit played a central role in both the First Matabele War (1893) and the Second Matabele War (1896/97) with many troopers serving in the Jameson...
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    fell out with Rhodes when the latter provoked Lobengula into the First Matabele War so he could take that country. In 1893 Moffat exposed the trickery...
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  • Alfred Taylor (British Army officer) (category People of the First Matabele War)
    between the King and the British South Africa Company. During the First Matabele War of 1893, Taylor acted as a guide to Cecil Rhodes. According to Taylor's...
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  • Company (BSAC) from the 1890s onward, following its subjugation of the Matabele (Ndebele) and Shona nations. Early White settlers came in search of mineral...
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    minister, Robert Mugabe. A Methodist minister, Canaan Banana, became the first president, serving until 1987. He resigned in 1987 shortly after the Constitution...
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    Frederick Selous (category People of the First Matabele War)
    take part in the First Matabele War of 1893 and was wounded during the advance on Bulawayo. It was during this advance that he first met fellow scout...
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