humiliated. In December 1852, he led a military expedition into Lesotho.
His troops captured
over four thousand
head of cattle, but the people
resisted fiercely, killing thirty-eight British soldiers. On the night of De-
cember
20,
Moshoeshoe
sent Cathcart
a skillfully phrased face-saving
message: "I entreat pace from you-you
have-shown you power.-c-you
have chastised,-let
it be enough I pray you; and let me no longer be
considered an enemy to the Queen."58 The next day, Cathcart decided to
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