<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Matabele_War" id="mwow" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Matabele War">First Matabele War</a>: A patrol of 34 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company" id="mwpA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British South Africa Company">British South Africa Company</a> soldiers is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangani_Patrol" id="mwpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shangani Patrol">ambushed and annihilated</a> by more than 3,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ndebele_people" id="mwpg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Ndebele people">Matabele</a> warriors on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangani_River" id="mwpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shangani River">Shangani River</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matabeleland" id="mwqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Matabeleland">Matabeleland</a>.