Event
First Matabele War: The Shangani Patrol of British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated, by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors
4 Dec 1893 · 18.80° S, 28.23° E
What the records say
- When
- 4 Dec 1893
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 18.80° S, 28.23° E
- Description
- First Matabele War: The Shangani Patrol of British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated, by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Shangani Patrol.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “une patrouille britannique, partie à la poursuite de Lobengula, est prise en embuscade et massacrée par plus de guerriers matabélés près de la rivière Shangani”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page