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The Rhodesian Bush War also known as the Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwean War of Independence, [ 13] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [ n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe ). [ n 2][ 24] The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white ...
Two black soldiers of the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) manning a FN MAG General-purpose machine gun (GPMG) aboard a patrol boat on Lake Kariba, December 1976.. The Rhodesian Bush War, also referred to as the Rhodesian Civil War, Zimbabwe Independence War or Zimbabwean War of Liberation, as well as the Second Chimurenga, was a military conflict staged during the Decolonisation of Africa that ...
Rhodesian propaganda efforts targeting Britain often used such symbolism to stress Rhodesia's contribution on Britain's side during the two World Wars, and accuse the British government of betrayal. During the Rhodesian Bush War, informational and political warfare was mounted by each of the involved factions: on one side, the Rhodesian ...
Category:Battles and operations of the Rhodesian Bush War. Category. : Battles and operations of the Rhodesian Bush War. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1965 – 1980 ). Please see the category guidelines for more information.
The attack on Altena Farm occurred in the early hours of 21 December 1972, during the third phase of the Rhodesian Bush War. [5] Altena was a tobacco farm owned by Marc de Borchgrave, a white Rhodesian landowner who was unpopular among the local civilians. [2] Some sources have indicated that this marked the beginning of the conflict proper ...
The Second Chimurenga, also known as the Rhodesian Bush War or the Zimbabwe Liberation War, refers to the guerrilla war of the 1966–1979 which led to the end of white-minority rule in Rhodesia and to the de jure independence of Zimbabwe. The physical manifestation of the war was as a conflict between the predominantly white minority ...
The Rhodesian Bush War intensified during this period. There were 2,504 vehicle detonations of land mines (mainly Soviet TM46s ), killing 632 people and injuring 4,410. The new Mozambican government threw its full weight behind the ZANLA cause and Rhodesia's entire border with Mozambique became a front line across which guerrillas began to ...
The 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry ( 1RLI ), commonly The Rhodesian Light Infantry ( RLI ), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks ( Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia) as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Barely a year after its creation, it was relocated to Cranborne Barracks ...