Pioneer Column occupies Mashonaland
1890 · Event
Rhodes's British South Africa Company column raises the flag at Fort Salisbury, claiming the land around Great Zimbabwe.
On these timelines: British Empire, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Scramble for Africa, Master
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