Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Nhoroondo dzenguva yekoloni dzakadaidza ikoku kuti Shangani Patrol, uye dzakarumbidza Wilson naBorrow samagamba enyika. Kumira kwavo kwokupedzisira pamwe chete kwakava rudzi rwengano yenyika, sezvinonyora Lewis Gann, "chiyeuchidzo chine mbiri, [cheRhodesia] chakaenzana nokuurawa kweropa kweAlamo
uye Custer's Last Stand muAmerican West". Nhoroondo yezviitiko zvakanyorwa nenhoroondo inobva pazvinyorwa zvaBurnham, Ingram naGooding, vaMatabele vaivepo muhondo (kunyanya "muDuna" Mjaan), nevarume vechikamu chaForbes. Nepo ufakazi hwose hwakananga hwakapiwa nezvapupu zvakaona huchitsigira zvakawanikwa neDare Rokuongorora, vamwe vezvenhau nevanyori vanokakavadzana kana Burnham, Ingram naGooding vakatumwa zvechokwadi naWilson kunotsvaka rubatsiro, uye vanotaura kuti vangangodaro vakangotiza apo hondo yakaoma. Kunyorwa kwokutanga kwokutaura uku kwokusiyiwa kwaiva kwenguva refu pashure pechiitiko chacho mutsamba yakanyorwa muna 1935 naJohn Coghlan kushamwari yake, John Carruthers, kuti "murume akavimbika kwazvo akandiudza kuti Wools-Sampson akamuudza" kuti Gooding akanga apupura pamubhedha wake wokufa kuti iye nevaAmerica vaviri vakanga vasina kutumwa naWilson, uye vakanga vangobva pachavo. Uku kureurura kwakanzwika kaviri, kunobva kunzvimbo isingazivikanwi, hakuna kutaurwa mubhuku raGooding ra1899, iro panzvimbo pezvo rinorondedzera zviitiko sezvakanyorwa kazhinji. Vanyori vanoverengeka vakakurumbira vakashandisa tsamba yeCoghlan, kunyange zvazvo isina kusimba, sechibvumirano chokugadzira ufakazi hwokufungidzira mukuedza kupikisa nokugadziridza chinyorwa chenhau.