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was performed in London's Drury Lane theatre in 1895, running for 177 performances. Its climax was "Wilson's Last Stand", a reenactment of Wilson's death. In the play, based on some embellished facts, it is said that in the killing of Wilson and his thirty-three men, Lobengula lost 80 of his royal
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