Shangani Patrol
The Shangani Patrol was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company. In 1893, it was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors. Surrounded and outnumbered about a hundred-fold, the patrol made a last stand. After fighting to the last cartridge, and killing over ten times their own number, they were annihilated. The patrol’s members, particularly Wilson...