Bechuanaland Expedition

Bechuanaland Expedition
	Part of the Boer Wars
	; Town hall of modern-day Vryburg
Date	December 1884–August 1885
Location	South Africa, Botswana
Result	British victory: British annexation of Stellaland is successful.;
Belligerents
Stellaland; South African Republic	United Kingdom British Bechuanaland;
Commanders and leaders
Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk; Paul Kruger	Sir, Charles Warren; Cecil Rhodes

The Bechuanaland Expedition or Warren Expedition, of late 1884/1885, was a British military expedition to the Tswana country, to assert British sovereignty in the face of encroachments from Germany and the Transvaal, and to suppress the Boer states of Stellaland and Goshen.

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