Shangani Patrol (1970) - FULL FILM The nerve-jangling true tale of a patrol of the British South Africa Company Police facing the might of King Lobengula's army in Rhodesia in 1893. The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol) was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), during the First Matabele War. Headed by Major Allan Wilson, the patrol was attacked just north of the Shangani