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III. The Jameson Raid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

Eric A. Walker
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In the late afternoon of Sunday, 29 December 1895, a little column of mounted men moved out from their camp at Pitsani Pothlugo in the south-eastern corner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and headed eastward for the boundary of the South African Republic, a few miles away. At about ten o'clock that night a still smaller column rode off along the northern road from Mafeking, the capital of British Bechuana-land thirty miles or so to the south, and once they were clear of the straggling town, wheeled to the right and also made for the Transvaal border. Riding through the starry night of a High Veld summer, the two columns joined hands at daybreak on republican soil and, after a short halt, pushed on at a smart pace towards Johannesburg.

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Cambridge Historical Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , 1940, pp. 283 - 306
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

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