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
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
Frederick Russell Burnham
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Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teac
Shangani Patrol
…Wilson refused to sacrifice his wounded by attempting to break through. In an act of desperation, he instead sent three of his men—American scouts Frederick Russell Burnham and Pearl "Pete" Ingram, and Australian Trooper William Gooding—to charge through the Matabele line, cross the river and bring reinforcements back to…
Major Burnham in his British Army uniform in 1901
Burnham in Arizona Territory in 1881
The six-shooter Burnham purchased as a teenager in Prescott, Arizona, which he kept all his life and later used in Rhodesia, East Africa and Mexico
Bob Bain; Burnham (middle) during the First Matabele War in 1893, holding his Winchester model 1873 .44WCF rifle; Maurice Gifford