List of wars involving Lesotho
This is a list of wars involving Lesotho and its processing states.
Conflict | Lesotho and allies |
Opponents | Results | Monarch |
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Battle of Viervoet (1851) |
Basotho Kingdom | United Kingdom | Victory
|
|
First Free State–Basotho War (1858) |
Basotho Kingdom | Orange Free State | Victory
| |
Battle of Berea (1858) |
Basotho Kingdom | United Kingdom | Inconclusive
| |
Second Free State–Basotho War (1865–1866) |
Basotho Kingdom | Orange Free State South African Republic |
Defeat
| |
Third Free State–Basotho War (1867–1868) |
Basotho Kingdom | Orange Free State | Defeat (but prevention of total Boer conquest)
| |
Morosi's Rebellion (1879) |
Basotho Kingdom United Kingdom |
Baphuthi rebels | Victory
|
|
Basuto Gun War (1880–1881) |
Basotho rebels | United Kingdom | Victory
|
|
BCP Uprising (1974) |
Government of Lesotho | BCP | Government victory
|
|
LLA Guerilla War (1979–1990) |
Government of Lesotho | LLA | Peace treaty
| |
SADC intervention in Lesotho (1998) |
South Africa Botswana |
LDF rebels | SADC victory
|
References
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- "Basotho Wars (1858-68)". Global Security. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
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- "Basotho Wars (1858-68)". South African History Online. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- Tylden, Geoffrey (1936). "The capture of Morosi's Mountain, 1879". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 15: 208–15.
- "BASUTOLAND ROLL OF HONOUR 1851 - 1881 - South African Military History Society - Journal". samilitaryhistory.org.
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