Word: nairasha
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Game of Polo. The Lancashire Fusiliers, only white regulars in the field between the Sudan and South Africa, pushed into the equatorial highlands towering above Lake Nairasha. One detachment of Fusiliers chased a band of Mau Mau up the rain-rutted sides of a 9,000-ft. extinct volcano. A posse of Kenya planters threw the Mau Mau lookouts off guard by staging a mock polo tournament, then suddenly dropped their polo sticks, whipped out rifles and charged the Mau Mau redoubt. From the ridges above came the sweating Fusiliers; behind, the Mau Mau found their retreat...
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