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Eshowe
Eshowe is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the hills north of the Thukela river. During the Anglo-Zulu War a British column was besieged at its mission station for more than two months in 1879, and from 1887 it was the seat of the British administration of Zululand. King Cetshwayo died there in 1884.
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