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How to use Matabele in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Matabele? Here are some examples.

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In 1888 he was instrumental in gaining British authority over Matabeleland and Mashonaland through the Moffat Treaty with the Matabele.
There is no love lost between the Matabele and the other major tribe.
Today it is the Matabele in Zimbabwe who are particularly suffering.
In 1893 and 1894, with the help of their new Maxim guns, the BSAP would go on to defeat the Ndebele in the First Matabele War.
The Second Matabele War lasted in Matabeleland until 1896, when Mlimo was assassinated.
An offshoot of the Zulu, the Matabele people created a larger empire that included large parts of the highveld under their king Mzilikazi.
This corresponds roughly to the precolonial territory of the Shona people and the Matabele people, although there are significant ethnic minorities in most provinces.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is nothing like the work we have in the Matabele mounted police, eh, John?
The next factor to reckon with was the Matabele nation and its chief, Lobengula.
We passed scherm after scherm, and still more Matabele, more fires, and on we rode.
He strode straight away, with these words, towards the Matabele hosts.
All this while there was no sign of any attack by the Matabele.
A week passed since the Matabele attack, and nothing had happened.
In 1890 he led Cecil John Rhodes' Pioneer Column into Rhodesia, seeing action in both Matabele rebellions.
Against these the Matabele with all their bravery could effect little.
Sir John Norton-Griffiths, better known to imperial and Great War contemporaries as 'Empire Jack' or 'Hell-Fire Jack', had served in the Matabele and Second Boer Wars.
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