home Anglo-Boer-War >> next << back
Military History – South Africa – Europe – England 19th Century
.Article – Online Historic Information | Military
.Page 222
relief and implying that a failure to comply would lead to Rhodes himself surrendering the town
to the Boers, Roberts gave Kekewich leave to arrest the troublesome capitalist. Fortunately it never
came to that. Rhodes returned to Cape Town after the relief of the Kimberley and died early in 1902,
before the war ended.
See also:
Jameson Raid; Kimberley, Siege of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999); Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992); Roberts, Brian, Cecil Rhodes (London,
Hamish Hamilton, 1987); Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London,
Eyre Methuen, 1972).
Rhodesia
The territory north of the Limpopo river, now Zimbabwe, was coveted by both the Boers and the
British. Cecil Rhodes won the race, acquiring mineral rights and then virtual governance of
Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1889. The territory became known as Southern Rhodesia, named
after Rhodes, and became a self-governing British colony in 1923.
See also:
Rhodes, Cecil.
Rhodesian Field Force
Before the outbreak of the war Lieutenant-colonel R. S. S. Baden-Powell and Lieutenant-colonel H.
Plumer were in the northern Cape and in Rhodesia, raising local volunteer forces. They intended to
distract the Boers with the illusion of a second Jameson Raid, an attack on the Transvaal from the
north-west, thereby forestalling a serious invasion of the Cape. The ploy worked, but led to BadenPowell being locked up in the siege of Mafeking and Plumer isolated with his Rhodesian Field Force
at Bulawayo in Rhodesia, still a potential threat to the Boers.
On 31 March 1900 Plumer attempted to make the threat into a real one. He had advanced to
within four miles of Mafeking with some 270 men, but at Oaklands farm he was comprehensivly outmanoeuvred by Vecht-general J. P. Snyman, a rare achievement for one of the least distinguished
Boer leaders, and was lucky to escape with only eight men killed, eleven missing and twenty-nine
wounded, of whom Plumer himself was one.
The next attempt was made in May. As Colonel Mahon’s force approached Mafeking from the
south, Plumer’s force of about 800 men received reinforcements in the form of seventeen men of the
Queensland Mounted Infantry and C Battery, Royal Canadian Field Artillery. The Rhodesian Field
Force met Mahon on the Molopo River, some thirty miles (50km) west of Mafeking, thus adding the
Diamonds Fields Horse, the Kimberley Light Horse, the
home
Anglo-Boer-War
>> next
<< back
Critical USA/EU Defense Intel Item / Threat Reporting Issue (Urgent for USA/NATO/German attention)
US/EU Investment & Security Risk – GBP Crash – ponzi ‘Rainbow Investment scheme ‘ – SEC insider Trading investigation
Additional Intel Details & Forecast(1 Year & 5 Year):
Industry : US & EU Defense
9/11 Attackers & Financiers : England(Prince Philip/Charles & Windsors)/Russia/China
Finance Source (9/11) : Diamonds via Anglo America plc / De Beers extracted SA & Namibia (ex German SWA) – Marketed China USA
Attack Co – Ordinators (9/11) : England -Windsors / Privy Council (UK)
Intelligence Intrusion Mgt/Blowback Suppression (9/11) : UK/England (MI5 & GCHQ – rainbow moles – Erik Ciaramella types )
Proxy Attack team(9/11) : Muslim “rainbow team” (non Christian) led by Mohammed Atta etc
Latest Defense Threat/Opportunity USA : Mi5/GCHQ “intel mole Erik Ciaramella unmasked” attempts to smear President Trump and enable corrupted $400million package to Ukraine
Latest Download Details :