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The uprising was timed to coincide with an invasion of the Transvaal from Bechuanaland (present day Botswana), by Dr Leander Starr Jameson. Rhodes wanted to take over the government of the Transvaal and turn it into a British colony that would join all the other colonies in a federation. Chamberlain helped plan the Jameson Raid. The Raid
He then described the men indicated; Leander Starr Jameson, Chief Magistrate in Mashonaland, in September, 1891, Administrator of the British South Africa Company, receiving his commission as resident commissioner for the territories of Ikanning and Montsioa in 1895; Major Willoughby of the Royal Horse Guard, seconded for the service in the British South Africa police in May, 1890; Robert ...
27 de ene. de 2020 · Leander Starr Jameson, who lead the raid, had first arrived in Southern Africa in 1878, lured by the discovery of diamonds near Kimberley. Jameson was a qualified medical doctor, known to his friends (including Cecil Rhodes, one of the founders of the De Beers Mining Company who became premier of Cape Colony in 1890) as Dr. Jim.
22 de ene. de 2016 · The Perils Of The ‘If’ Man. January 22, 2016, by JimC. Rudyard Kipling’s enduring poem, “If” was inspired by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. Today, Jameson is remembered — if he’s remembered at all — for a botched raid into the Transvaal, a fool’s errand to raise a rebellion of English miners in the Boer Republic.
Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Primo Baronetto KCMG - CB (Edimburgo, 9 febbraio 1853 – Londra, 26 novembre 1917), è stato un politico britannico. Noto anche come Doctor Jim , The Doctor o Lanner , è conosciuto soprattutto per l'operazione militare passata alla storia come la Spedizione di Jameson .
1 de nov. de 2012 · A rollicking biography of Dr Leander Starr Jameson—hero, rogue and rascal of Empire and the man who inspired Kipling to write this masterpiece, ‘If’ This famous poem by Rudyard Kipling is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the 1896 raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen carried out on Paul Kruger’s Transvaal Republic.
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A rollicking biography of Dr Leander Starr Jameson--hero, rogue and rascal of Empire and the man who inspired Kipling to write this masterpiece, 'If' This famous poem by Rudyard Kipling is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the 1896 raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen carried out on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic.
