| | Moshoeshoe I -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Moshoeshoe (1786?-1870) was born at Menkhoaneng in the Northern part of present-day (A landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966) Lesotho. |
 | | Moshoeshoe’s reign coincided with the growth in power of the well-known (A member of the tall Negroid people of southeast Africa living in northern Natal) Zulu king, (Click link for more info and facts about Shaka) Shaka. |
 | | However, the British pulled out of the region in 1854, causing the de facto formation of two independent states: the Boer (A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997) Orange Free State and the Sotho Kingdom. |
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