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    The Jameson Raid (Afrikaans: Jameson-inval, lit. ''Jameson's Invasion'' , 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a botched raid against the South African...
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    involvement in the ill-fated Jameson Raid. He was born on 9 February 1853, the youngest of 12 children of Robert William Jameson (1805–1868), a Writer to...
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  • Jameson Raid are a British heavy metal band. They are usually considered to be part of the new wave of British heavy metal, following their inclusion on...
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    Grey was the only London-based director to know about plans for the Jameson Raid, and he, like Rhodes and Beit, did not share this knowledge with the...
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    political and economic rights led to the failed Jameson Raid of 1895. Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, who led the raid, intended to encourage an uprising of the...
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    Transvaal government in Pretoria and the British, culminating in the Jameson Raid that ended in fiasco at Doornkop in January 1896. The Second Boer War...
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    association. This marked the 75th anniversary of Randfontein. Remnants of the Jameson Raid (29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) can be found in Randfontein. Various...
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  • Land, Greenland Jameson Point, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Jameson Irish Whiskey, a brand of whiskey Jameson Raid, a failed raid against the South...
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    the early 1890s, he was forced to resign in 1896 after the disastrous Jameson Raid, an unauthorised attack on Paul Kruger's South African Republic (or Transvaal)...
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    repelling the Jameson Raid, a botched raid against the Republic carried out by British colonial administrator Leander Starr Jameson. The raid, conducted...
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    Jameson (17 August 1856 – 17 August 1888) was a Scottish naturalist and traveller in Africa. He identified the black honey-buzzard in 1877. Jameson's...
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    them and the British Empire. In 1895 the failed Jameson Raid led by Cecil Rhodes and Leander Starr Jameson increased tensions further between Britain and...
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    The Jameson Raid followed, which brought attention to Cecil Rhodes. The Jameson Raid was supported by Rhodes and led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson. Its...
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    presidency, to which he was re-elected in 1888, 1893 and 1898, and led to the Jameson Raid of 1895–1896 and ultimately the Second Boer War. Kruger left for Europe...
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    command of the force that rounded up Leander Jameson at Doornkop at the conclusion of the Jameson Raid on 2 January 1896. During the Second Boer War...
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    The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military...
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    1902. The incursion is known in history as the Jameson raid (under the command of Leander Starr Jameson). John Christopher Willoughby was second in command...
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  • Doornkop is the spot where Dr Leander Starr Jameson was defeated on 2 January 1896 following the Jameson Raid. The Doornkop area is also linked in popular...
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    in 1896 when tensions with the German Empire were high following the Jameson Raid in South Africa. Three ships were assigned to the International Squadron...
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    poem, he was inspired by the character of Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the failed Jameson Raid against the South African Republic to overthrow the Boer...
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    Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895-1902. Cape Town: The Van Riebeeck Society. ISBN 978-0-9584112-9-5. Cousins, Alan (2006). "The Jameson...
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  • 'drifts'. The Crisis has traditionally been seen as the precursor to the Jameson Raid and the uncompromising policies of High Commissioner for Southern Africa...
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  • Beasts Haze Hell HellsBelles Hollow Ground Holocaust Iron Maiden Jaguar Jameson Raid Lionheart Mama's Boys Marseille McCoy Mirage More Mournblade The Next...
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    government of Matabeleland under Leander Starr Jameson. He was placed on the half-pay list in 1894. The Jameson Raid was perhaps the most trying event in Rhodes's...
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  • oversight. The Jameson Raid (29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a raid on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic carried out by Leander Starr Jameson and his Rhodesian...
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    Committee had been instrumental in the preparation for the Jameson Raid. Leander Starr Jameson had been in charge of Matabeleland but overstepped his authority...
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    a financial success. He was a main force planning and executing the Jameson Raid in 1895. It was a fiasco and Hammond, along with the other leaders of...
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    arrive. The Jameson Raid (29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a raid on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic carried out by Leander Starr Jameson and his Rhodesian...
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  • : 328  Sauer was in Johannesburg during the infamous Jameson Raid in December 1895. After the raid failed, he was arrested and imprisoned by the South...
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    Matabeleland (1893–94) North Borneo (1894–1905) Chitral Expedition (1895) Jameson Raid South Africa (1896) Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) Matabeleland (1896–97)...
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