Allan Wilson (army officer)
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Major Allan Wilson was a Scottish-born army officer. He is best known for his leadership of the Shangani Patrol in the First Matabele War. His death fighting overwhelming odds made him a national hero
A cigarette card depicting "Wilson's Last Stand"
Shangani Patrol
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The Shangani Patrol was a 37-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed and annihilated by over 3,000 Matabele warriors in pre-Southern Rhodesia, during the First Matab
Allan Wilson (army officer)
…Major Allan Wilson (1856 – 4 December 1893) was a Scottish-born army officer. He is best known for his leadership of the Shangani Patrol in the First Matabele War. His death fighting overwhelming odds made him a national hero in Britain and Rhodesia. Wilson was born in Scotland. Upon…
There Were No Survivors, an 1896 depiction of the patrol's last stand, by Allan Stewart (1865–1951)
The Shangani Memorial, which was erected at World's View in the Matopos Hills in 1904
King Lobengula of Matabeleland (a posthumous depiction, based on a contemporary sketch)
Route of the Shangani Patrol