The Establishment Of The Protectorate (Part 29) The Jameson Raid

We last left off with the 20th of November 1895 visit of Dikgosi Bathoen I, Khama III and Sebele I to Windsor Castle, where they were finally given an audience with Queen Victoria (Mmamosadinyana).

This followed the trio’s reluctant acceptance of Chamberlain’s “half loaf” settlement, which we now know from the exposure of once secret documents was originally intended to only be a pause in Rhodes’ ultimate takeover of the entire Protectorate.

 In the end Goold Adams’ plans to reduce the half loaf to mere crumbs, along with the transfer of other parts of Botswana to Company control, was thwarted by the failure of the Jameson Raid.

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