Jameson Raid
Britishnoun
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Arguably his most notorious moment was his backing of the disastrous Jameson Raid of 1895, in which a small British force tried to overthrow Paul Kruger, the Afrikaaner president of the gold-rich Transvaal Republic.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2015
Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which has been translated into 27 languages, was based on the character of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, of Jameson Raid fame.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his life once hung by a thread when, after the failure of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, Hammond was sentenced to death by the Boers for conspiracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you know of the Jameson Raid, described as a “fiasco”? Marvellous punctuation story.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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