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Matabele may refer to:

  • Northern Ndebele people
  • HMS Matabele (F26), a destroyer of the Royal Navy
  • Matabele (beetle), a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae

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Matabele

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Matabele may refer to: Northern Ndebele people HMS Matabele (F26), a destroyer of the Royal Navy Matabele (beetle), a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae...

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Second Matabele War

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The Second Matabele War, also known as the First Chimurenga, was fought in 1896 and '97 in the region later known as Southern Rhodesia, now modern-day...

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First Matabele War

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First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern-day Zimbabwe. It pitted the British South Africa Company against the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom...

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Matabele War

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The Matabele War may refer to: The First Matabele War (1893) The Second Matabele War (1896–97); also called the Matabeleland Rebellion or the First Chimurenga...

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Shangani Patrol

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and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in pre-Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), during the First Matabele War. Headed by Major Allan Wilson...

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Sunbeam Matabele

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The Sunbeam Matabele was a British 12-cylinder aero engine that was first flown in 1918. The Matabele was the last iteration of one of Sunbeam's most...

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Mzilikazi

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all opposition and reorganised the captured territory to suit the new Matabele order. In 1831, after winning a battle against the Griqua people, Mzilikazi...

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Northern Ndebele people

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eGabeni at dawn. In a nine-day battle, they destroyed eGabeni and other Matabele camps along the Marico River. Mzilikazi—realizing that the Ndebele, like...

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Company rule in Rhodesia

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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...

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Rudd Concession

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British and Matabele peoples and then sent Rudd's team from South Africa to obtain the rights. Rudd succeeded following a race to the Matabele capital Bulawayo...

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Sunbeam Cossack

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family was the Sunbeam Matabele, retaining the Aluminium alloy blocks and 122 mm (5 in) bore of the Saracen the V-12 Matabele delivered 420 hp (313 kW)...

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Lobengula

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last official king of the Northern Ndebele people (historically called Matabele in English). Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long...

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Southern Rhodesia

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Pioneer Column on the strength of a Mineral Concession extracted from its Matabele king, Lobengula, and various majority Mashona vassal chiefs in 1890. Though...

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Northern Ndebele language

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saseNyakatho, Zimbabwean Ndebele or North Ndebele, associated with the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs...

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Matabele ant

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Matabele ant refers to one of the following ant species or groups: Certain Afrotropical Dorylus species, also known as Driver ants Megaponera analis, a...

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Battle of Bembezi

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The Battle of Bembezi (1 November 1893) was an engagement of the First Matabele War, between the British South Africa Company and the Ndebele Kingdom....

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Matabeleland

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of General Custer's stand at Little Big Horn in the United States. The Matabele fighters honoured the dead men with a salute to their bravery in battle...

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Zimbabwe

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they conquered Mashonaland and later in 1893 Matabeleland after the First Matabele War. Company rule ended in 1923 with the establishment of Southern Rhodesia...

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Frederick Russell Burnham

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walked unarmed into the Matabele stronghold and made peace with the rebels, ending the Second Matabele War. With the Matabele wars over, Burnham decided...

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Lozikeyi

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her death in 1925. Lozikeyi Dlodlo played an important role in the Anglo-Matabele war of 1896. She was in charge of the King's army. Together with her twin...

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Maxim gun

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conflict during the First Matabele War in Rhodesia. During the Battle of the Shangani, 700 soldiers fought off 5,000 Matabele warriors with just five Maxim...

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Hendrik Potgieter

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Baralong against the Matabele raiders, in exchange for land. The tract of land was from the Vet River to the Vaal River. The Matabele leader, Mzilikazi,...

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Tswana people

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over them as Moremi settled for a period at nearby Nokaneng. The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern-day Zimbabwe. The British...

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South Africa

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devastated and depopulated in the early 1820s. An offshoot of the Zulu, the Matabele people created a larger empire that included large parts of the highveld...

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Rhodesian Bush War

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resistance. German journalist Shari Eppel estimates approximately 20,000 Matabele were murdered in these first years after the war; most of those killed...

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Patrick William Forbes

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British South Africa Company force which invaded Matabeland during the First Matabele War. Forbes was born in 1861 at Whitechurch, England, the son of A. O....

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Mthwakazi

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to refer to inhabitants of Matebeleland Province in Zimbabwe. The word Matabele is an anglicised term that was used by the British, a spelling that is...

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