"The Matabele Wars" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Aug 2018 12:15 p.m. PST |
"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. There is a twist: present-day Zimbabwe, seemingly always a place of conflict and bloodshed, is the site of this desperate fight by a few white soldiers against a horde of tribesmen, resentful of European attempts to colonise their territory. While we are very familiar with the struggle for South Africa and the desperate encounters at Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift, and Ulundi during the Zulu War of 1879, this was only the beginning of a generation of brutal conflict across the ‘dark continent'…"
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| GreenLeader | 01 Aug 2018 3:16 p.m. PST |
A more in-depth account: link |
| Tango01 | 02 Aug 2018 11:32 a.m. PST |
Many thanks!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Au pas de Charge | 08 Aug 2018 4:49 p.m. PST |
That Rhodes was some Colonialist Oppressor. You have to subscribe to get the rest of the article? |
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