An American engineer, John Hays Hammond, and an expatriate British army colonel were sentenced to hang from the beam of Slagter's Nek for their involvement, but these death sentences were commuted to large fines.
An American engineer, John Hays Hammond, and an expatriate British army colonel were sentenced to hang from the beam of Slagter's Nek for their involvement, but these death sentences were commuted to large fines. Its less fortunate namesake, the Administrator General for Matabeleland, served fifteen months in Holloway Prison upon his return to London. His men were surrounded and forced to surrender at Doornkop after the "Reform Committee" of Johannesburg uitlanders failed to support them as promised. Their opponent was encouraged by the presence of a cruiser in Delagoa Bay and by a famous telegram from Kaiser Wilhelm II. FTP, name this January 1895 raid that worsened Anglo-Boer relations.
An American engineer, John Hays Hammond, and an expatriate British army colonel were sentenced to hang from the beam of Slagter's Nek for their involvement, but these death sentences were commuted to large fines.
the Jameson raid