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In March 1896, the Ndebele revolted against the authority of the [[British South Africa Company]] in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence. Mlimo, the Ndebele spiritual/religious leader, is credited with fomenting much of the anger that led to this confrontation. He convinced the Ndebele and the [[Shona people|Shona]] that the white settlers (almost 4,000 strong by then) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease [[rinderpest]] ravaging the country at the time. | In March 1896, the Ndebele revolted against the authority of the [[British South Africa Company]] in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence. Mlimo, the Ndebele spiritual/religious leader, is credited with fomenting much of the anger that led to this confrontation. He convinced the Ndebele and the [[Shona people|Shona]] that the white settlers (almost 4,000 strong by then) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease [[rinderpest]] ravaging the country at the time. | ||
Mlimo's call to battle was well timed. Only a few months earlier, the [[British South Africa Company]]'s Administrator General for [[Matabeleland]], | Mlimo's call to battle was well timed. Only a few months earlier, the [[British South Africa Company]]'s Administrator General for [[Matabeleland]], Leander Starr Jameson, had sent most of his troops and armaments to fight the [[Transvaal Republic]] in the ill-fated Jameson Raid. This left the country nearly defenseless. The British would immediately send troops to suppress the Ndebele and the Shona, but it would cost the lives of many settlers, Ndebele, and Shona alike, take months before British forces would be adequate to break the sieges and defend the major settlements, and war would rage on until October of the following year. | ||
=== Rebellion === | === Rebellion === | ||
