Significant1880 – 1881 · 1 year

Basotho Gun War

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Basutoland

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Basotho rejection of Cape disarmament that forced the transfer of Basutoland back to direct imperial control.

Belligerents2

Cape Colony
Basotho

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Basotho Gun War (1880 – 1881). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/basotho-gun-war · Sources & methodology