Matabeleland and How We Got It
Subtitle: With Notes on the Occupation of Mashunaland, and an Account of the 1893 Campaign by the British South Africa Company, the ... British Territories and Protectorates
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781421261584
Subjects: Matabeleland,description,Occupation,Mashunaland,Newman,Charles L. Norris,Notes,Account,1893,Campaign,British,South Africa,Territories,Protectorates; History / Africa; History / Egypt
First sentence: IT will be generally admitted that the travels and discoveries of Baker, Speke, Grant, Living-stone, Stanley, and Cameron, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and the causes which led to the Brussels Conference of 1876, were all factors in the rush for Africa, and its partition among the European Powers; added to which it must not be forgotten that, after the big wars in Europe in 1870-6, the various nations concerned, either directly or indirectly, took a considerable time to get back to their status quo ante, and then quickly found out that, with the possibility of such slight events letting loose the "dogs of war" over their heads, the only method of ensuring peace was to prepare for a reverse, and this was done with a vengeance; so much so that the burden put upon those peoples, where conscription was the rule, became almost too heavy to be borne, crippling the resources of the nation, and causing quite a social ferment among the lower classes, who, of course, felt the hardships the most, and thus producing an increased growth of Nihilism, Anarchist and Socialist et hoc genus omne.