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The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol) was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in pre-Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), during the First Matabele War.
May 10, 2018 · The Last Stand of the Shangani Patrol, a fatal action for British colonial units during the Matabele Wars. We know the story. Goaded into a hopeless war by an expanding colonial empire, thousands of warriors rise against their oppressors – and inadvertently spawn a legend.
On the banks of the rain-swollen Shangani River, a small force of white militiamen closed ranks as hundreds of Matabele warriors swarmed around them. They intended to sell themselves dearly. In the Matabele language there was no word for “soldier”.
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 by Major Patrick William Forbes was attacked during night by a large force of Ndebele Kingdom warriors.
Oct 14, 2015 · The stand of the Shangani Patrol was to the Rhodesian identity what the Alamo was to Texas. Both the Rhodesian BSAP and the Rhodesian Army taking some of their traditions from those days. The BSAP retained mounted (peacetime) Patrol Officers on horseback well into the 1950s.
The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol) was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in pre- Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), during the First Matabele War.
4 days ago · Instead of the natives having been scattering from the King, they had been gathering. But it was too late to turn. We were hard upon our prize, and it was understood among the Wilson patrol that they were going to bring the King in if man could do it.
