First Matabele War
1893–1894 · Event
The British South Africa Company's columns, armed with Maxim guns, shatter Lobengula's Ndebele kingdom and seize Matabeleland for Rhodes's chartered colony.
On these timelines: The Scramble for Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire, Master
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