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Jakob Marengo’s Victory – The Namibian
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Jakob Marengo’s Victory – The Namibian

The battle at Narudas in March 1905 between Jakob Marengo’s guerilla army and the German colonisers was on the same scale as the encounter at Hamakari. That confrontation – on the eastern part of the Karas mountains – involved 300 to 400 Marengo fighters from many different language groups. With only rifles to hand, they...