Major conflict1893 – 1894 · 1 year

First Matabele War

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Matabeleland · Bulawayo · Shangani

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

BSAC conquest of Lobengula's Ndebele Kingdom and seizure of Bulawayo.

Belligerents2

British South Africa Company
Ndebele Kingdom

ON THE MAPNdebele Kingdom

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Empadine1893
Battle of Shangani1893
Battle of Shangani Incident1893

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: First Matabele War (1893 – 1894). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/first-matabele-war · Sources & methodology