Masvingo (inhabited place)
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Fort Victoria, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/119
Scope and Contents
Showing two circular ‘daga’ and thatch huts with a stone wall beyond and the Union Jack flying in the background. ‘On the plateau near the head of the Pass, the Column laagered, and on rising ground a short distance away Colonel Pennefather ordered the construction of a fort. Strong stakes were driven into the earth to stand about six feet above the ground, and branches were woven into the interstices between them. At a distance of about twenty feet from the stockade a ditch five feet deep...
Dates:
1890
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