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Jameson Raid

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Jameson Raid: see Jameson, Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Sir Leander Starr, 1853–1917, British colonial administrator and statesman in South Africa. He went to Kimberley (1878) as a physician, became associated with Cecil Rhodes in his colonizing ventures, and was appointed (1891) administrator of
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Sometimes he made a mess in the international sphere by his chaotic statements and messages, especially the famous Kruger telegram of 1896 where William went to congratulate President Kruger of the Transvaal on the suppression of the Jameson Raid, and aggravated British public opinion and Germany felt its full impact many years later on.
The Fort started its life as a jail but was converted to a defensive structure at the time of the Jameson raid at the end of 1895.
Both Rhodes and Chamberlain were implicated in the Jameson raid but a subsequent inquiry turned into a whitewash and neither had to produce the telegrams that were said to implicate them.
 
 
 
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