Significant1856 – 1891 · 35 years

Msiri's Wars

Bunkeya · Katanga

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Conquests of the Nyamwezi warlord Msiri that built the Yeke Kingdom in Katanga, ended by his killing at Bunkeya by Captain Stairs's Congo Free State expedition.

Belligerents1

  • Yeke Kingdom

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Msiri's Wars (1856 – 1891). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/msiri-s-wars · Sources & methodology