Shangani Patrol
The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol), comprising 34 soldiers in the service of the British South Africa Company, was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893. Headed by Major Allan Wilson, the patrol was attacked just north of the Shangani River in Matabeleland in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). Its dramatic last stand, sometimes called "Wilson's Last Stand", achieved a prominent place in the British public imagination and, subsequently, in Rhodesian history, mirroring events such as the Battle of Shiroyama in Japan, the Alamo massacre in Texas and the ancient Greeks' last stand at Thermopylae.
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Shangani Patrol
The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol), comprising 34 soldiers in the service of the British South Africa Company, was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893. Headed by Major Allan Wilson, the patrol was attacked just north of the Shangani River in Matabeleland in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). Its dramatic last stand, sometimes called "Wilson's Last Stand", achieved a prominent place in the British public imagination and, subsequently, in Rhodesian history, mirroring events such as the Battle of Shiroyama in Japan, the Alamo massacre in Texas and the ancient Greeks' last stand at Thermopylae.
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La patrouille de la Shangani, ...... ns furent finalement annulées.
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Shangani Patrol, der Patrouill ...... riegs im ehemaligen Rhodesien.
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The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson ...... ns were ultimately overturned.
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Uma das batalhas mais notáveis ...... Patrol, foi produzido em 1970.
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~400–500 killed
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Matabele Kingdom
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1893-12-04
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37 (3 broke out)
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An 1895 sketch, portraying a scene from the battle. Burnham kills a Matabele warrior.
Captain Henry Borrow headed the reinforcements.
Chief of Scouts Frederick Russell Burnham in 1901, during the Second Boer War
Major Allan Wilson led the Shangani Patrol.
Map of the First Matabele War, 1893–94:
There Were No Survivors, an 1896 depiction of the patrol's last stand, by Allan Stewart
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I have heard all that you have ...... I have sent then I will come.
I send this message in order, ...... ive in peace and friendliness.
Leander Starr Jameson
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La patrouille de la Shangani, ...... ittle Big Horn aux États-Unis.
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Shangani Patrol, der Patrouill ...... riegs im ehemaligen Rhodesien.
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The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson ...... ks' last stand at Thermopylae.
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Uma das batalhas mais notáveis ...... mento escoteiro internacional.
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Patrouille de la Shangani
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Shangani Patrol
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Shangani Patrol
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Shangani Patrol
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Shangani Patrol
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