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  • Thumbnail for Zungeni Mountain skirmish
    Natal Horse, a troop of the Natal Light Horse and a number of Shepstone's Native Horse, totalling around 300 men. Buller's men charged, scattering the...
    15 KB (1,791 words) - 14:10, 11 April 2024
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    Shepstone attempted to placate the Zulu with paternal speeches, however they were unconvinced and accused Shepstone of betraying them. Shepstone's subsequent...
    61 KB (8,646 words) - 10:02, 29 July 2024
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    force of African troops including the Natal Native Horse and a detachment of the 1st Regiment Natal Native Contingent. On 20 January, Durnford's force...
    15 KB (1,731 words) - 00:46, 12 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for First Boer War
    Theophilus Shepstone was sent by Lord Carnarvon (British Secretary of the Colonies) as a special commissioner to the Transvaal. Shepstone did not initially...
    37 KB (4,799 words) - 17:45, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Isandlwana
    rocket battery (3 rocket troughs) Natal Native Horse (5 troops) – 5 officers, c. 259 NCOs and men 1st/1st Natal Native Contingent (2 companies) – 6 officers...
    68 KB (9,215 words) - 04:40, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Rorke's Drift
    with furniture. At about 3:30 p.m., a mixed troop of about 100 Natal Native Horse (NNH) under Lieutenant Alfred Henderson arrived at the station after...
    44 KB (5,775 words) - 03:27, 28 June 2024
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    Nyabêla reported to the magistrate in Lydenburg. Henrique Shepstone, the British Secretary of Native Affairs, visited with Nyabêla in July 1880 to resolve...
    11 KB (1,537 words) - 11:28, 4 August 2024
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    District (kwaDukuza) KwaDukuza Ndwedwe Mandeni Maphumulo Ugu District (Port Shepstone) Ray Nkonyeni uMdoni uMuziwabantu Umzumbe Harry Gwala District (Ixopo)...
    45 KB (4,023 words) - 18:26, 6 July 2024
  • including the egregious and venal Theophilus ‘Offy’ Shepstone, the eldest son of Sir Theophilus Shepstone. These concessions were to be the subject of endless...
    18 KB (2,495 words) - 23:10, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scramble for Africa
    Cape to avoid the British and then founded their republics. Theophilus Shepstone annexed the South African Republic in 1877 for the British Empire, after...
    95 KB (10,302 words) - 18:19, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Eswatini
    prevented any attacks from Cetshwayo, who had been crowned by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1873. In addition, the Transvaal Boers wanted to assert their authority...
    48 KB (6,047 words) - 21:49, 21 July 2024
  • ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-091-8. Klein, Harry (1969). Light Horse Cavalcade: The Imperial Light Horse, 1899-1961. Timmins (Howard). de Vries, J.J.P. (Winter...
    49 KB (3,076 words) - 17:19, 2 April 2024
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    they found his personal habits, such as copious spitting, revolting. Shepstone's legal adviser William Morcom was one of the first British officials to...
    140 KB (18,467 words) - 11:32, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mangosuthu Buthelezi
    political leader of the KwaZulu government, entering when it was still the native reserve of Zululand in 1970 and remaining in office until it was abolished...
    164 KB (16,977 words) - 23:01, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Natal Mounted Police
    Natal Mounted Police provided the protective escort for Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the Special Commissioner, when he went to Pretoria to issue a proclamation...
    13 KB (1,625 words) - 23:48, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jacobus Philippus Snyman
    (or Transvaal) during the 19th century. He was the District Commissioner, Native Commissioner, and Commandant for the Marico district and led the Rustenburg...
    77 KB (9,461 words) - 01:27, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Hlophe
    KwaZulu-Natal). His clan name is Samela. His father, originally from Port Shepstone, worked as a security guard and later as a traditional healer, while his...
    75 KB (7,349 words) - 00:24, 3 August 2024
  • African Republic (Z.A.R.) Boers. It was precipitated by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, who annexed the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) for the British...
    64 KB (7,978 words) - 18:19, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for South African Wars (1879–1915)
    Zululand annexed. In July 1878, High Commissioner Henry Bartle Frere, using Shepstone's assurance, began claiming that Natal was threatened by a possible Zulu...
    103 KB (15,010 words) - 04:59, 26 July 2024
  • African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C. 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry...
    114 KB (10,400 words) - 07:04, 28 July 2024
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