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The 'Valiant Englishman' - Christopher Bethell, Montshiwa’s Barolong and the Bechuanaland Wars, 1878–1886 (Hardcover)
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The 'Valiant Englishman' - Christopher Bethell, Montshiwa’s Barolong and the Bechuanaland Wars, 1878–1886 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge/UNISA Press Series
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This book describes the career of an English aristocrat,
Christopher Bethell, who arrives in southern Africa in 1878 as the
classic "remittance" man, despatched to the colonies to avoid a
scandal at home. Bethell, an intelligence officer and later, a
border agent, is the protagonist who facilitated the acquisition of
arms for Montshiwa's Ratshidi-Barolong to resist the depredations
of freebooters, mercenaries based mostly in the Transvaal. In his
alliance with Kgosi Montshiwa Tawana, Bethell identifies with Kgosi
Montshiwa’s struggle to maintain political independence and
economic security. The alliance was further cemented by Bethell’s
marriage to a Morolong woman Tepo Boapile – an unusual occurrence
in nineteenth century southern Africa. Surrounded by aggressive
freebooters from across their eastern border with the Transvaal and
the ambiguous forces of colonial advancement from the Cape colony
and Britain, Montshiwa and Bethell form an unlikely but enduring
relationship aimed at safeguarding Rolong interests. As the
Bechuanaland Wars of the early to mid-1880s intensify in brutality
Montshiwa and his Chief of Staff, Christopher Bethell are forced to
desperate measures to defend the Rolong and avoid outright
dispossession. Bethell’s demise is the trigger for firm British
imperial intervention, the securing of the Road to the North and
events that will determine the fate of Africans in south and
central Africa. The book is a reminder that, in the author’s
words, "past relations between South Africa’s different races
were characterised as much by collusion and collaboration as they
were by hostility, friction and dissent."
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