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Firearms in Nineteenth Century Botswana The Case of Livingstone s 8 Bore Bullet.pdf - 1 views

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    Pages 2-7 of this document indicates the use of guns in Botswana prior, during and after the Boers intervention.
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24483851.pdf - 1 views

  • These lineage clusters of separatist chiefdoms all claimed equal status
  • These lineage clusters of separatist chiefdoms all clai
  • These lineage clusters of separatist chiefdoms all claimed equal status with each other and remained militarily weak and suffered
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  • ary aggres sion from the Boers who had recently arrived in Southe
  • Africa and wanted
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      The Boer war weakened the military services of the Batswana. Batswana were not military advanced as the Boers as they used spears and knives
  • e Tswana traditional land tenure system vested
  • the control of the land
  • in the chief (kgosi) who was the custodian and trustee
  • and was supposed to administer it in the best interests of a
  • a. It had a white 'trader ward' of forty people
  • Africa. It had a white 'trader ward' of forty people, including six women and thirteen c
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      The assimilation of power ny the white trader
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    In pages three to five of this document the Tswana/ people of Botswana are depicted in precolonial times of the Batswana and Boer war. The Batswana people are show are dependent on the British or the English for protection. This documents further depicts the kingdoms that were attacked by the Boers, using millitary experdictions.
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Firearms in Nineteenth Century Bostwana - 2 views

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    This source takes a look at David Livingstone's influence on the Batswana kingdom under the ruler Sechele. It further looks at firearms used to protect livestock of the Batswana people. It lastly depicts the use of troops, firearms, and force in the war against the Batswana and the Boers, as the Boers wanted to claim most of the Batswana land. Page 20 to 22 of this document tells us of the use of firearms to protect the livestock of the Batswana people. Page 28-29 tell us of the Boers invading the Batswana land and the attempts they did to let Sechele surrender the land to them.
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