1884–1885 British military expedition to present-day Botswana
Bechuanaland Expedition
Part of the Boer Wars
Town hall of modern-day Vryburg
Date
December 1884–August 1885
Location
Southern Africa
Result
British victory:
British annexation of Stellaland is successful.
Belligerents
Stellaland South African Republic
United Kingdom
British Bechuanaland
Commanders and leaders
Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk Paul Kruger
Sir, Charles Warren 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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