Significant1856 – 1857 · 1 year

Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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British Kaffraria · Gxarha River

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Millenarian prophecy of Nongqawuse triggering mass cattle slaughter and the collapse of independent Xhosa power, treated as a 'silent war' in Cape Frontier historiography.

Belligerents2

British Empire
Xhosa

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement (1856 – 1857). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/xhosa-cattle-killing-movement · Sources & methodology