1st Edition
The 'Valiant Englishman' Christopher Bethell, Montshiwa’s Barolong and the Bechuanaland Wars, 1878–1886
1. Setting the Scene: ‘Bundled off to the Cape’ 2. The Barolong and Crisis in the Cis-Molopo 3. Bethell with the Ratshidi-Barolong, 1879–1880 4. The Looming Misery: The First Anglo-Boer War, 1880–1881 5. The Freebooters in Bechuanaland Wars 6. The First Siege of Mafikeng, January-October 1882 7. ‘Canon’s Mouth’: Surrender and a Peace Treaty 8. The Boer Republic of Goshen 9. The Northern Batswana Alliance 10. Christopher Bethell’s Marriage and Kgosi Montshiwa, 1883–1884 11. Reverend John Mackenzie: Towards British Protection 12. Ntwa ya Tigele:The Battle of Tigele, 30 July 1884 13. The Consequences of Bethell’s Death 14. Establishing a Crown Colony: The Warren Expedition of 1885 15. Bethell’s Death in Historical Context 16. The ‘Valiant Englishman’
Biography
Andrew Manson is research Fellow at University of South Africa. Previously he was a Research Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at North West University.
