mafeking in English

noun

capital city of the North West Province in South Africa

Use "mafeking" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "mafeking" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mafeking", or refer to the context using the word "mafeking" in the English Dictionary.

1. 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.

2. The siege of Mafeking lasted for eight months.

3. The town produced its own postage stamps, known as "Mafeking Blues", for postage during the siege.

4. The Siege of Mafeking lasted 217 days from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell into a national hero.

5. In the United Kingdom, the public, through newspapers, followed Baden-Powell's struggle to hold Mafeking, and when the siege was broken he had become a national hero.

6. THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING FILSON YOUNG But this was almost certainly a bronze lamp in the form of a bird, which they produced to Appease her …

7. Three years later, in South Africa during the Second Boer War, Baden-Powell was besieged in the small town of Mafikeng (Mafeking) by a much larger Boer army.

8. Work to build defences around the 6-mile (10 km) perimeter of Mafeking started on 19 September 1899; the town would eventually be equipped with an extensive network of trenches and gun emplacements.

9. THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING FILSON YOUNG But he did know that they met now and then, that Mills seemed to have some curious knowledge of when Bland was far Afield. …

10. The Bophuthatswana government had consistently refused to take part in the April 1994 multinational elections, and when this boycott was formally endorsed by the Bophuthatswana cabinet, African National Congress (ANC) supporting mobs took to the streets of Mmabatho and Mafeking, the two main towns in the homeland, demanding that the independent