| 词条 | Bechuanaland Expedition |
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|conflict=Bechuanaland Expedition |partof=the Boer Wars | image= Vryburg town hall.jpg | image_size = 250 |caption= Town hall of modern-day Vryburg |date=December 1884-August 1885 |place=South Africa, Botswana |result=British victory:
|combatant1={{flag|Stellaland}} {{flag|South African Republic}} |combatant2={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
|commander1={{flagicon|Stellaland}} Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk {{flagicon|South African Republic}} Paul Kruger |commander2={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Sir, Charles Warren {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Cecil Rhodes }} The Bechuanaland Expedition or Warren Expedition, of late 1884/1885, was a British military expedition to Bechuanaland, to assert British sovereignty in the face of encroachments from Germany, the Transvaal and to suppress the Boer freebooter states of Stellaland and Goshen. In December 1884, Major-General Charles Warren was sent as HM Special Commissioner to command a military expedition to Bechuanaland, to assert British sovereignty in the face of encroachments from Germany and the Transvaal, and to suppress the Boer freebooter states of Stellaland and Goshen, which were backed by the Transvaal and were stealing land and cattle from the local Tswana tribes. Warren's force of 4,000 British and local troops headed north from Cape Town, accompanied by the first three observation balloons ever used by the British Army in the field. On 22 January, Warren met the Boer leader Paul Kruger at the Modder River where Kruger sought to bring the expedition to a halt on the basis that he would take responsibility for maintaining order in Bechuanaland. Warren did not abandon his march, however, and on reaching Bechuanaland he dissolved up the republics of Stellaland and Goshen without bloodshed and Bechuanaland became a British protectorate.[1] Warren was recalled in September 1885. Scottish missionary John Mackenzie (1835–99), who accompanied Warren, described his experiences with the expedition in an 1887 work, Austral Africa: Losing It or Ruling It.[2] References1. ^{{Cite web| title = Bechuanaland| work = British Empire: The Map Room: Africa| accessdate = 2014-06-19| url = http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/bechuanaland.htm}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}2. ^{{Cite book| publisher = Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington - via World Digital Library| last = Mackenzie| first = John| title = Austral Africa: Losing It or Ruling It; Being Incidents and Experiences in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, and England| location = London| accessdate = 2014-06-19| date = 1887| url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2525}} 9 : 1880s in Bechuanaland Protectorate|British military personnel of the Bechuanaland Expedition|Boer Wars|History of Bechuanaland Protectorate|Military expeditions|1884 in Africa|1884 in the British Empire|1885 in Bechuanaland Protectorate|19th-century establishments in Bechuanaland Protectorate |
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