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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Mafeking
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Garrison town founded in 1885 in the extreme north of Cape Colony in South Africa, as a base for administering a new protectorate (which became *Botswana). It was from here that the *Jameson Raid crossed into the Transvaal. The garrison, under the command of *Baden-Powell, was immediately besieged at the start of the *Boer War. News of the relief of Mafeking (17 May 1900, after 217 days) was greeted in Britain with scenes of hysteria, and the event became the predominant popular memory of the war.
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