The Rhodesian mission in Lisbon (Portuguese: Missão da Rodésia em Lisboa), the capital of Portugal, operated from September 1965 to May 1975. It was a...
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Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (redirect from Rhodesian declaration of independence)
intent to open its own diplomatic mission in Lisbon, separate from the British embassy there. The British and Rhodesians argued about this unilateral act...
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Zimbabwean War of Independence as well as the Rhodesian Bush War, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia...
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ministry) of the Rhodesian government. It was involved in running the Rhodesian mission in Lisbon and Rhodesia's unofficial embassies in the United States...
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White Zimbabweans (redirect from Rhodesians)
White Zimbabweans, also known as Rhodesians, are a Southern African people of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, these people...
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The Rhodesian Front (RF) was a conservative political party in Southern Rhodesia, subsequently known as Rhodesia. Formed in March 1962 by white Rhodesians...
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The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military forces of the Rhodesian government. The Rhodesian Security Forces consisted of a ground force (the Rhodesian...
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Flag of Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian flag)
flag of the country, but in 1972, the Rhodesian Olympic team raised the earlier pre-1953 dark Blue Ensign at the Olympic Village in Munich, while "God Save...
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Frank Mussell (category Recipient of the Rhodesian Legion of Merit)
Rhodesian Joint Planning Staff. In 1966 Mussell was sent to Lisbon, Portugal, where he joined the Rhodesian Diplomatic Mission as the first secretary (political)...
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Ian Smith (category Rhodesian Air Force personnel)
to open an independent mission in Lisbon; Portugal's acceptance of this in September 1965 prompted British outrage and Rhodesian delight. Amid rumours...
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elections were held in Rhodesia, renamed the year before from Southern Rhodesia, on 7 May 1965. The results was a victory for the ruling Rhodesian Front, which...
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Southern Rhodesians fought alongside the British in the Second Boer War and the First World War; about 40% of Southern Rhodesian white men fought in the latter...
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Politics of Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian parliament)
The political party that held sway in the years after the unilateral declaration of independence was the Rhodesian Front, later known as the Republican...
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going to Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council. Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front won all 20 of the white roll seats, with most of its candidates...
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£1 Rhodesian = US$2.8. In 1970, the pound was replaced by the dollar, at a rate of £1 Rhodesian = $2 Rhodesian, so $1 Rhodesian was US$1.40. In 1964, coins were...
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the war's end, 26,121 Southern Rhodesians of all races had served in the armed forces, 8,390 of them overseas, operating in the European theatre, the Mediterranean...
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The Rhodesian dollar (R$ or Rh$, RHD) was the currency of Rhodesia between 1970 and 1980. It was subdivided into 100 cents. The dollar was introduced...
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Rhodie (category Rhodesian diaspora)
Zimbabwean or expatriate Rhodesian. The term Rhodie was first used by British Army and civil service personnel in Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980) during the...
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returning to British colonial rule in 1979 following the Lancaster House Agreement. The British Government did not accept Rhodesian independence as they did not...
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Elizabeth, Queen of Rhodesia, her heirs and successors". However, the Rhodesian Front government of Prime Minister Ian Smith ceased to recognise the authority...
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Northern Rhodesia (redirect from 1959 Order in Council)
Southern Rhodesian politicians, but the British Government preferred a looser association to include Nyasaland. This was intended to protect Africans in Northern...
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Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, commonly the Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI or RLI), served in the Rhodesian Bush War as part of the Rhodesian Security...
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The Rhodesian Intelligence Corps was a military intelligence regiment within the Rhodesian Army concerned with training personnel, units, and organizations...
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Salazar 15 September - Harry Reedman arrives in Lisbon to set up the Rhodesian mission there. 7 November – Portuguese legislative election, 1965. Portuguese...
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Rhodesia and weapons of mass destruction (category Rhodesian Bush War)
biological agents. Rhodesian CBW use took place toward the end of Rhodesia's protracted struggle against a growing African nationalist insurgency in the late 1970s...
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most Africans. Following three years of negotiations with the Southern Rhodesian government and other parties, the British government put forward a draft...
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De facto embassy (section Foreign missions in Taiwan)
overseas missions in Lisbon and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) until 1975 and an "Accredited Diplomatic Representative" in Pretoria. The Rhodesian Information...
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia (category Rhodesian Bush War)
to Dzimba dzamabwe in Shona (one of the two major languages in the country), means "houses of stone". Meanwhile, the white Rhodesian community was reluctant...
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Berry, Bruce; Whitehead, Chris (28 February 2011). "Rhodesian flag inventory". Mesa, Arizona: Rhodesians Worldwide. Retrieved 6 March 2012. "Masvingo (Zimbabwe)"...
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