Yaƙin Cunene

Yaƙin Cunene

Iri	faɗa
Bangare na	Campaigns of Pacification and Occupation
Kwanan watan	25 Satumba 1904
Wuri	Cunene River (en)
Ƙasa	Angola

Yakin kogin Cunene ya faru ne tsakanin sojojin 'yan mulkin mallaka na Portugal da mayakan Ovambo daga Oukwanyama da Cuamato a Angola ta zamani a ranar 25 ga watan Satumban 1904. Kashin ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin mafi girman kashin da aka yi a tarihin 'yan mulkin mallaka na Portugal tun daga Alcácer Quibir (1578) kuma yana kwatankwacin kashin Ingila a Isandhlwana a kan Zulus (1879), na Italiya a Dogali (1887) da Adwa (1896) da Habashawa ko Spain a Melilla (1909) da A19 (19).

Bayan sun fatattaki mutanen Nkhumbi, sojojin Portugal sun ci gaba daga Huila zuwa kudu zuwa yankunan da Portugal ta yi iƙirari amma har yanzu ba su sami iko ba. A kogin Cunene sun fuskanci turjiya daga mutanen Ovambo guda biyu, Cuamato/Kwamato da Cuanhama/Kwanyama, ƙarƙashin jagorancin sarkinsu Tchetekelo. Sa’ad da wata runduna ta ci gaba da ta ƙunshi sojojin Portugal 500 da na Humbi da ke ƙarƙashin kyaftin Luís Pinto de Almeida suka tsallaka kogin, an kashe mutane kusan 300 a wani kwanton ɓauna.

Rashin nasarar Portuguese ya biyo bayan balaguron azabtarwa a cikin shekarar 1905 da 1907, amma ba kafin 1916 Kudancin Angola ya kasance "lalatacce".

Sources

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Angola" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• António Aniceto Monteiro: The Conquest of Southern Angola (The Massacre, 25 September 1904)
• José Bento Duarte: Desastre do Vau do Pembe (Angola) – 25 de Setembro de 1904