Company rule in Rhodesia
The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column's march north-east to Mashonaland in 1890. Empowered by its charter to acquire, govern and develop the area north of the Transvaal in southern Africa, the Company, headed by Cecil Rhodes, raised its own armed forces and carved out a huge bloc of territory through treaties, concessions and occasional military action, most prominently overcoming the Matabele army in the First and Second Matabele Wars of the 1890s. By the turn of the century, Rhodes's Company held a vast, land-locked country, bisected by the Zambezi river. It officially named this land Rhodesia in 1895, and ran it until the early 1920s.
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Company rule in Rhodesia
The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column's march north-east to Mashonaland in 1890. Empowered by its charter to acquire, govern and develop the area north of the Transvaal in southern Africa, the Company, headed by Cecil Rhodes, raised its own armed forces and carved out a huge bloc of territory through treaties, concessions and occasional military action, most prominently overcoming the Matabele army in the First and Second Matabele Wars of the 1890s. By the turn of the century, Rhodes's Company held a vast, land-locked country, bisected by the Zambezi river. It officially named this land Rhodesia in 1895, and ran it until the early 1920s.
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Rhodesië is een voormalige Britse kolonie in Afrika.
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The British South Africa Compa ...... sh protectorate in April 1924.
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"Justice, Commerce, Freedom"
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Shona, Sindebele, Bemba and Chewa widely spoken
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Zimbabwe, Zambia
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United Kingdom
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Named "Rhodesia"
Responsible government for Southern Rhodesia
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Direct British rule for Northern Rhodesia
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Pioneer Column; start of Company rule
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Alfred Sharpe ' and Joseph Tho ...... rive north was thereby halted.
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*1Northern Rhodesia became Zam ...... itself Rhodesia in 1964, then
in 1979. It has been Zimbabwe since 1980.
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Rhodesia under Company rule in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
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*1890–1924
*1890–1923
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Southern Africa
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Northern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
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Charter colony
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Chartered territory of the
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Company coat of arms
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Rhodesië is een voormalige Britse kolonie in Afrika.
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The British South Africa Compa ...... ran it until the early 1920s.
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Company rule in Rhodesia
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Rhodesië
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