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Bechuanaland Expedition
Part of the Boer Wars

Town hall of modern-day Vryburg
DateDecember 1884–August 1885
Location
Southern Africa
Result

British victory:

  • British annexation of Stellaland is successful.
Belligerents
Bechuanaland Expedition Stellaland
Bechuanaland Expedition South African Republic

Bechuanaland Expedition United Kingdom

  • United Kingdom British Bechuanaland
Commanders and leaders
Stellaland Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk
South African Republic Paul Kruger
United Kingdom Sir, Charles Warren
United Kingdom Cecil Rhodes

The Bechuanaland Expedition or Warren Expedition, of late 1884/1885, was a British military expedition to the Tswana country, to assert British sovereignty in the face of encroachments from Germany and the Transvaal, and to suppress the Boer states of Stellaland and Goshen.

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