2-653-211 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

They Fought on Grimly, 1895, (1902). The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol), comprising 34 soldiers in the service of the British South Africa Company, was ambushed and defeated by the Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1902]