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laager on the
model pioneered by the Boers. Lobengula's
generals Manonda and
Mjaan launched the
attack with 5–6,000 warriors. However, BSAC
sentries soon alerted...
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January 1894. With the king dead,
Mjaan, the most
senior of the izinDuna, took
command of the Matabele.
Mjaan was an old man, and his only son had...
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Jameson Major Allan Wilson †
Major Patrick Forbes Khama III King Lobengula †
Mjaan,
Chief inDuna Strength 750
Company troops 1,000
Tswana 80,000
spearmen 20...
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Ingram and Gooding, the
Matabele present at the
battle (particularly
inDuna Mjaan), and the men of Forbes' column.
While all of the
direct evidence given...
