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The Batswana-Boer War Of 1852-53_ How the Batswana Achieved Victory.pdf (20).pdf - 1 views

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  • The Batswana-Boer War of 1852-53
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      This was the outbreak of the war.
  • The principal hero of the Batswana-Boer War was Kgosi Sechele of
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      The leader of the Batswana tribe was known as Kgosi Sechele, he led the Batswana clan to resist the supremacy of the Transvaal Boers.
  • In 1846 the wagons of one trader, Joseph McCabe, were confiscated by the Boers for carrying arms to Sechele
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      One of the White people who used to trade with the Bakwena, was taken by the Boers for taking guns to Sechele the Bakwena leader.
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  • Shortly after their arrival in the western Transvaal the Boers began to demand that the Bakwena disarm and submit to their
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      After the Boers arrived in Western Africa they wanted the Batswana clan also known as the Bakwena to give up their guns and yield to the Boer's supremacy.
  • n April 1851 the SAR's supreme military leader, Commandant-General Andries Pretorius, concluded that the Bakwena would have to be forcibly disarmed.1
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      In 1851 the Supreme military leader, took a decision that the Boers guns should be forcefully taken away from them.
  • Hoping to avert battle, Sechele suggested a two-day truce to allow both sides to negotiate. The Boers were given free passage to the waters of the Kolobeng river, during which time the Batswana made a show of displaying thei
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      Hoping to prevent war, the 2 parties agreed to ceasefire for 2 days so they all stayed in the same place but the Batswana kept on showing off their guns.
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Firearms in Nineteenth-Century Botswana_ The Case of Livingstone's 8-Bore Bullet.pdf - 1 views

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  • imperialism’s consolidation
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      Empires expanded and conquered new people around the world.
  • This paper looks at firearms technology during the critical decade prior to the outbreak of the Batswana-Boer War of 1852–1853, when the Bakwena ruler or Kgosi (plural ‘Dikgosi’), Sechele I, led a coalition of Batswana polities in successfully resisting the hegemonic demands of the Transvaal Boers.
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      This article shows the armaments machinery of the Batswana tribe and the leader King Sechele who led the the Bakwena to resist the Supremacy of the Transvaal Boers.
  • By 1870 most of modern Botswana had as a result come under the authority of four kingdoms; led by the Dikgosi of Bakwena (Kweneng), Bangwaketse (Gangwaketse), Bangwato (Gammangwato) and Batawana (Gatawana). 8 The political authority of each of these kingdoms, along with the border states of the Barolong booRatshidi (Borolong), Bakgatla bagaKgafela (Kgatleng) and Balete (Gammalete), was supported by the protective as well as coercive capacity of their arsenals.
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      In 1870, The Batswana tribe divided themselves into four kingdoms and each kingdom had a leader. All these kingdoms were able to keep injury away from themselves using force and threats from their military equipment.
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  • Setswana praise poetry,
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      The Batswana made a poem about the War between them and the Boers.
  • Batswana were also quick to incorporate gun wielding cavalry into their military formations and tactics.
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      Batswana were too fast to join weapon using cavalry into their military arrangements and strategies.
  • orsemen armed with breechloaders played a decisive role in what is believed to have been the most sanguinary of Botswana’s many nineteenth-century fire-fights, the 1884 engagement at Khutiyabasadi, where Batawana and Wayeyi slaughtered over 1,500 Amandebele invaders. 1
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      Horsemen equipped with breechloaders played conclusive part in what is accepted to have been the foremost gory of Botswana's numerous nineteenth-century fire-fights, the 1884 engagement at Khutiyabasadi, where Botswana and Wayeyi butchered over 1500 Amandebele trespassers.
  • The acquisition of guns was both a cause and consequence of a surge in the region’s hunting trade from the 1840s; involving the export of ivory, karosses and ostrich feathers from hunting grounds largely falling under the effective control of the Dikgosi of Kweneng, Gammangwato, Gangewaketse and Gatawana.
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      siphoesihletshabalala03 on 01 May 23
       
      The procurement of weapons was both a cause and result of a surge within the region's chasing exchange from the 1840's, including the send out of ivory, karosses and ostrich quills from chasing grounds to a great extent falling beneath the compelling control of the Dikgosi.
  • The 8-bore bullet moulds, as well as the sevenbarrelled gun, were meant for Sechele’s growing
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      The weapons were implied for Sechele's developing arsenal.
  • armoury
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      A place where weapons are kept.
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      This manuscript talks about the beginning of the twentieth century the main engine of change in Central Africa was the British South Africa Company, founded by Cecil Rhodes. In 1889 it had received from the British government a charter to exercise powers of administration in the region. During the next decade its agents invaded most parts of the mineralised tablelands between the middle Limpopo, the Zambezi Congo watershed and Lake Tanganyika, the Company thereby gained private possession of virtually all mineral deposits throughout the spheres assigned to it by international treaties.
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JORNAL JSTOR FIREARMS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.pdf - 1 views

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  • THE relationships of the peoples of southern Africa after the establishment and expansion of the white settlement in the mid-seventeenth century can be seen in terms of both conflict and interdependence, both resistance and collaboration
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      The connection of Southern African people after the foundation of extension of the white settlement within the mid-seventeenth century can be seen in terms of both strife and interdependency.
  • A 'gun society' existed at the Cape from the beginning of white settlement there in i652
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      In 1652, when the white people arrived in the Cape they brought guns along with them so Africa became a gun society from years ago.
  • Although the Khoisan4 peoples at the Cape were less successful at expelling the European intruders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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      In spite of the fact that the Khoisan individuals at the Cape failed to remove the invaders,
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  • e too the advantages conferred by firearms have generally been overestimate
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      The points of interest conferred by guns have by and large been overemphasized.
  • the time of the first Dutch-Khoi war of I659-60
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      this was the outbreak of the war between the Dutch and the Khoisan.
  • By the i67os a certain number of firearms were getting into Khoisan hands
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      By the 1670s the number of Khoisan armaments was increasing.
  • burgher
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      A Boer Republic.
  • ammunitio
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      A supply or quantity of bullets and shells.
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    This picture depicts the introductory of guns in Southern Africa {Botswana} where most young and old men were taught how to use and handle the gun. The Batswana tribe grew into a big tribe and it started trading with foreign people including whites. Guns were increasing and increasing in Botswana and they came up with strategies on how they will defeat their enemies. One of the strategies was to always be in groups and always armed so that they ready incase an enemy attacks.
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