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    The Battle of Salt River was a small military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua...
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    The Battle of Salt River Canyon, the Battle of Skeleton Cave, or the Skeleton Cave Massacre was the first principal engagement during the 1872 Tonto Basin...
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    The Battle of Blood River (16 December 1838) was fought on the bank of the Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 464 Voortrekkers...
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  • scene of the Battle of Salt River. Salt River, Cape Town, a suburb of Cape Town Salt River railway station, a Metrorail train station in Salt River, Cape...
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    it was the scene of the Battle of Salt River between the Portuguese and the Goringhaiqua. Once a booming part of Cape Town because of its close proximity...
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    Skeleton Cave (Arizona) (category Landforms of Maricopa County, Arizona)
    site of the 1872 massacre of the Yavapai people in the Battle of Salt River Canyon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991....
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  • 1976. 1982 brought the effects of a world economic crisis to South Africa, and the price of gold fell in 1985. The result of these things and other economic...
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    rock salt. The range extends along the south of the Potohar Plateau and the north of the Jhelum River. The Salt Range contains the great mines of Khewra...
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    Paarden Eiland (category Suburbs of Cape Town)
    Dutch approximate spelling). It was the approximate location of the Battle of Salt River in 1510, the first military encounter between Europeans and indigenous...
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    George Crook (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    during the Yavapai War included the Battle of Salt River Canyon, also known as the Skeleton Cave Massacre, and the Battle of Turret Peak. In 1873, Crook was...
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    Boer republics (category History of South Africa)
    of the Vaal river.: 230  Commandant-General Andries Pretorius led the commandos against the British forces later that year, leading to the Battle of Boomplaats...
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  • Cowell, Alan (27 August 1986). "11 REPORTED SLAIN AND 62 WOUNDED IN SOWETO BATTLE". New York Times. "ABC New Nightline August 28, 1986". ABC News. 28 August...
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    Mfecane (redirect from Wars of Calamity)
    the Pongola River. Battles between the allied forces of Chief Dingiswayo and of Chief Zwide, and the Ndwandwe probably mark the start of what became the...
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  • Long Walk to Freedom (category Biographies of Nelson Mandela)
    Congress in 1950 and describes his organisation of guerrilla plan and underground organisations to battle against apartheid. In 1961, Mandela was convicted...
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  • The river had special religious significance and was also good for the extraction of salt through possession of some salt springs. The battle seem to...
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    Crook forced the Yavapai bands into a single decisive battle. In December 1872, the Battle of Salt River Canyon in the Superstition Mountains decisively routed...
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    Zulu Kingdom (redirect from Kingdom of Zulu)
    Zwide's first assault at the Battle of Gqokli Hill (1818). Within two years, Shaka had defeated Zwide at the Battle of Mhlatuze River (1820) and broken up the...
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    legally theirs in terms of the Sand River Convention of 1852 and other historical treaties, through the International Court of Justice in The Hague if...
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    [according to whom?] [citation needed] In 1510, at the Battle of Salt River, Francisco de Almeida and fifty of his men were killed and his party was defeated...
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    First Boer War (category Military history of the British Empire)
    engagements of the war were all within about sixteen miles of each other, centred on the Battles of Laing's Nek (28 January 1881), Ingogo River (8 February...
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  • when the leader of the Hard Livings gang, Rashaad Staggie, was beaten and burnt to death by a mob during a march to his home in Salt River. South Africa's...
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    founded in 1839 after a Voortrekker victory against the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River. The area was previously named Natália by Portuguese sailors, due...
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    Ubuntu philosophy (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    Please Stand Up?" Journal of Media Ethics 30(2), pp. 125–147. Battle, Michael (2007). Reconciliation: The ubuntu theology of Desmond Tutu. Pilgrim Press...
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    present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into existence on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River colonies. It...
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    by for instance L.P.H. Botha (Harrismith), G.A. Brand (Bethulie, Caledon River, Rouxville, Wepener and East Bloemfontein), D.H. van Coller (Heilbron),...
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  • killed during the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, making that engagement of enormous symbolic importance, as it was the largest single loss of life in MK's history...
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    celebrations of the centenary of the Battle of Blood River and the Great Trek mobilised behind an Afrikaans nationalist theses. The narrative of Afrikaner...
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  • The Battle of Ventersdorp was a violent confrontation on 9 August 1991 in the South African town of Ventersdorp between supporters of the far-right Afrikaner...
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    Weenen massacre (category History of KwaZulu-Natal)
    known as the Battle of Blood River. The town of Weenen (Dutch for "crying" or "weeping") was established two months after the massacre. List of massacres...
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  • de Almeida was defeated in the Battle of Salt River by the indigenous Goringhaiqua Khoikhoi clan. The area fell out of regular contact with Europeans...
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