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	MAFEKING - LoveToKnow Article on MAFEKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mafeking is thus an important trading and distributing centre for Bechuanaland and the western Transvaal.
		Mafeking was originally the headquarters of the Barolong tribe of Bechuana and is still their largest station, the native location (pop.
		The fate of the town had excited the liveliest sympathy in England, and the exuberant rejoicings in London on the news of its relief led to the coining of the word ma.fficking to describe the behaviour of crowds on occasions of extravagant demonstrations of a national kind.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAFEKING.htm (336 words)

	Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.
		Mafeking was first shelled on the October 16 after Baden-Powell ignored Cronje's 9 o'clock deadline to surrender.
		Fake landmines were laid around the town in view of the Boers and their spies within the town, and his soldiers were ordered to simulate avoiding barbed wire (non-existent) when moving between trenches; guns and a searchlight (improvised from an acetylene lamp and biscuit tin) were moved around the town to increase their apparent number.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Siege_of_Mafeking (914 words)

	Mafikeng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899, the town was besieged.
		Mafikeng served as the capital of the Bechuanaland protectorate (even though it was outside the protectorate's borders) from 1894, until 1965, when Gaborone was made the capital of what was to become Botswana.
		Mafeking briefly served as capital of the pre-independent fl homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1970s before the adjoining town of Mmabatho was established as the capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mafeking (388 words)

	Mafeking - the place of stones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mafeking is the name the English colonists gave to Mafikeng, a town in the dusty, sparesly populated northern Cape.
		Earlier Mafeking had been used as the base for the Jameson Raid - an unsuccesful raid by the British colonists against the Dutch speaking Boer republic of Transvaal.
		As the war drew closer, Colonel Baden-Powell was commissioned to raise a force in Rhodesia to defend the border on the north of the Transvaal republic.
	www.scouting.org.za /seeds/mafeking.html (515 words)

	Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mafeking forces comprised the Protectorate Regiment of around 500 men, around 300 from the Bechuanaland Rifles and the Cape Police, and a further 300 comprising men from the town.
		Three Victoria Crosses were awarded as a result of acts of heroism during the siege, to Sergeant Horace Martineau and Trooper Horace Ramsden for acts during an attack on the Boer Game Tree Fort, and to Captain Charles FitzClarence for Game Tree and two previous actions.
		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking - William McGonagall's poem and a brief history of the siege.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking (892 words)

	Siege of Mafeking -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the (A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans) Boers.
		A cadet corps of boys aged 12 to 15, later to be one of the inspirations for the (Exploring in order to gain information) Scouting movement, was also formed to act as messengers and orderlies, so releasing men to fight and bringing the total engaged in the military effort to around 2000.
		Mafeking was first (Click link for more info and facts about shelled) shelled on the October 16 after Baden-Powell ignored Cronje's 9 o'clock deadline to surrender.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/siege_of_mafeking.htm (769 words)

	The Sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking, and Kimberley
		In the siege of Mafeking, B-P's forces were outnumbered at a ratio of approximately 6 to1.
		However, B-P still managed to hold Mafeking, and the only real attack he had to fend of was Field Coronet Eloff's last ditch attempt to capture the town before the relief arrived.
		The fact that B-P was able to fend off the Boers and hold Mafeking until the relief instilled a belief in the B.P that they had won at the "white man's war".
	www.coursework.info /i/618.html (867 words)

	Howard Hensman. A History of Rhodesia: Chapter XX. Events at Mafeking.
		Across the entrances to Mafeking empty waggons were drawn up in lines with the idea of minimising the power of the enemy's shells as much as possible, and at the same time of affording a post of vantage to the defenders should the Boers try to carry the town by assault.
		The defenders of Mafeking watched the Boers commence to push forward trenches, and at once turned their attention to preventing this as much as possible by means of artillery fire, for as yet the besiegers were outside the range of the rifles.
		The casualties in Mafeking from the beginning of the siege up to February 24, as they were then known in London, were 5 officers and 59 men killed, and 8 officers and 126 then wounded; while 4 men had died of their wounds, and 14 men were reported as missing.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /hensman-20-mafeking.htm (5963 words)

	Mafikeng (Mmabatho) - History - The Siege of Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The town of Mafikeng (Mafeking) was born in the late 19th century when the blurred and often disputed western border of the Transvaal Republic was the favourite haunt of bands of brigands, freebooters and outlaws of various descriptions.
		Jameson's purpose was to assist the Uitlanders ('foreigners') of Johannesburg in an armed revolt against the government of President Paul Kruger, who refused to grant the political concessions demanded by the developers of the gold mines.
		The name of the town formally reverted to the original Mafikeng in 1980 when the town was incorporated into the 'homeland' of the Tswana people, which in 1977 had become the supposedly 'independent' Republic of Bophuthatswana in terms of the apartheid policy.
	about-south-africa.com /html/mafikeng.html (945 words)

	The Great Boer War - The Siege Of Mafeking
		Sometimes the besiegers and the number of guns diminished, forces being detached to prevent the advance of Plumer's relieving column from the north; but as those who remained held their forts, which it was beyond the power of the British to storm, the garrison was now much the better for the alleviation.
		From a mere tin-roofed village Mafeking had become a prize of victory, a stake which should be the visible sign of the predominating manhood of one or other of the great white races of South Africa.
		The Boers retired past Mafeking and took refuge in the trenches upon the eastern side, but Baden-Powell with his war-hardened garrison sallied out, and, supported by the artillery fire of the relieving column, drove them from their shelter.
	www.free-ebooks-uk.netfirms.com /great-boer-war/24-the-siege-of-mafeking.html (5584 words)

	Guardian \| Mafeking revisited
		Mafeking was a sideshow, but it became the central most significant event of the Boer War, and it led, of course, to the elevation of Robert Baden-Powell to his position as icon of empire.
		The Barolong actually saved Mafeking from the Boers' final assault and the Cape Boys acted with great bravery in the brickfields, an area where the besiegers and the besieged came into very close contact.
		There is a picture of the Boer prisoners being marched into Mafeking on May 12, the last attack of the siege, which shows them dressed in heavy jackets and waistcoats under their soft hats.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4225193-103418,00.html (1310 words)

	"Johnny" Walker's Scouting Milestones Pages - The Mafeking Cadets
		Mafeking was as class-conscious as the rest of Victorian society and it must have seemed fitting that the son of so worthy a father should hold rank himself, despite his age.
		Mafeking was saved by a combination of many factors, not least the ingenuity of B-P and the courage of the besieged, both fl and white.
		Linden Bradfield Webster's Reminiscences of the Siege of Mafeking.
	www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk /cadets.htm (5740 words)

	BP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mafeking had now survived for almost a month against a force which was seven times larger than BP's forces and which represented a fifth of the Boer forces in Transvaal.
		Mafeking was now effectively a stalemate and a side show in the military campaign, but when it came to the psychological war, it was to become extremely important to the morale of the British nation.
		After Mafeking, BP often told the story of one of his 20 year old orderlies who was killed in the action.
	members.aol.com /glipoid/BP.html (4620 words)

	Mafeking
		Under modern conditions Mafeking could not have been held for a day; a few tanks could have gone right through it; but in 1899 there were no tanks and no aeroplanes, and the explosives used would now be thought primitive.
		The new commander was reluctant to risk lives in attacking Mafeking, but preferred to draw the cordon tighter in the hope of starving the besieged into surrender.
		B.-P. replied, "Mafeking, in the game it is playing at present is 180 [the days the siege had then lasted] not out against the bowling of Cronje, Snyman and Eloff.
	www.scoutscan.com /history/mafeking.html (3746 words)

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		Mafeking was a small town about ½-distance from Capetown to Pretoria in South Africa.
		Mafeking was a stregic town, as it was on the main rail line between countries, and also on the banks of the Molombo River.
		Two important elements contributed to the successful defense of Mafeking, the use of deception, ie fooling the enemy into believing that the city was stronger than it really was, and 2) the use of boys who were too young to be soldiers to serve instead as critical messengers and assist in other jobs.
	www.hightowertrail.com /Mafeking.doc (1245 words)

	Mafeking Diamond Prospect for sale or JV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mafeking Prospect, consist of an area of approximately 2500km2 covered by diamondiferous, alluvial gravel material.
		The deposit is transected the by a tarred road from Mafeking to Vryburg, with water supply available form a dam to the immediate north of the area.
		The Mafeking deposit can be exploited by means of smaller individual operations or a single bigger mining venture.
	www.goldandsilvermines.com /mafeking.htm (313 words)

	CHSSCOUT.NET > Archives - Articles, Resources, Maps, Games, Recipes, Camping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historians debate about the events that led up to the siege of Mafeking, but the 217 day siege is one of the most fascinating stories in military strategy.
		Mafeking was a trade center for its area, and had been the center for the region's government.
		If Mafeking was to hold hold out, it would only be through BP's skill as a military strategist.
	www.chsscout.net /rescenter/docs/mafeking.shtm (784 words)

	The Mafeking Siege Cancel
		Frederick Lawrence, Ph.D. The investment of the siege of Mafeking began in mid-October, 1899 at the beginning of the Second Anglo-Boer War.
		The military authority bought up the entire stock of postage stamps in the Mafeking Post Office and then had the stamps overprinted "Mafeking Besieged" and surcharged for the special rates of the siege mail by the local printer, Messrs.
		"MAFEKING C.G.H." squared circle date stamp (Goldblatt SC 6), which had been in use since November 1895, when British Bechuanaland, in which Mafeking was then located, was annexed by the Cape of Good Hope.
	www.sossi.org /articles/siegecancel.htm (512 words)

	Mafeking
		The siege of Mafeking was the most celebrated siege of the second Boer War.
		When the siege of Mafeking began he was outnumbered and outgunned by the Boer army.
		The Mafeking Cadets had their own uniform: khaki uniforms, wide-brimmed hats (with the brim turned up on one side), or caps.
	www.barking-dagenham-scouts.org.uk /scouting_mafeking.html (442 words)

	Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The population of Mafeking was 5,000 Africans and 1,500 Whites.
		Mafeking is a railway junction on the line northwards to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the the 24 administrative capital of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, market centre for the district.
		It consists of two separate settlements: the European town founded In 1885 and the older settlement Mafikeng (meaning Tswana "place of rocks" of which Mafeking is a European corruption) founded and occupied by the Tshidi/Rolong and separated by a distance of about a mile from the European town.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/plaatje (5546 words)

	Lots 241-320
		ex Vryburg to Mafeking bearing d vermilion tied by "555" numeral and 1894 cover (roughly opened at top) to Mafeking bearing 1d (2) tied by "555" numeral.
		Roughly opened at top but a scarce mark on cover (the office was only open between the end of 1891 and September 1895).
		MAFEKING: 1900 Baden-Powell 3d deep blue on blue paper very fine used on small piece (stains on latter not affecting stamp itself) with clear "AP 9/1900" c.d.s.
	www.cavendish-auctions.com /sale619_12apr02/A241_320.HTM (3069 words)

	The Age 150th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It had become a point of honor to successfully relieve Mafeking, and Lord Roberts was wise to delay till he felt that, when he launched his column northwards towards Mafeking, it would arrive, and in condition to disperse the besiegers.
		Maurice Gross, J.P.) invites citizens to celebrate the relief of Mafeking by a display of flag and other decoration of their premises as soon as the safety of the garrison is assured, the signal for which will be the hoisting of the flag in the town hall.
		The rejoicing in connection with the relief of Mafeking, which was commenced in the early hours of Friday morning, was continued in the city, town and district throughout the day.
	150.theage.com.au /view_bestofarticle.asp?intid=554 (4297 words)

	McGonagall Online: The Relief of Mafeking
		Public jubilation at the relief of Mafeking was so great that it added a new verb - to maffick - to the english language.
		When ordered to southern Africa in the summer of 1899, Baden-Powell's orders were to raise two regiments of mounted rifles and use them to hold the western frontier of the Transvaal, drawing Boer forces away from British landings on the coast in the event of war.
		When, as expected, war broke out in October that year, Baden-Powell was in the town of Mafeking with a garrison of a thousand men some 250 miles from the nearest reinforcements.
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk /poems/mpgmafeking.htm (1292 words)

	The Siege of Mafeking / Iain R. Smith, academic editor. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When the opening shots of the South African War reverberated across the world on 12 October 1899, the small, dusty border town of Mafeking, with the adjacent Barolong settlement, was garrisoned and plunged into the privations, dangers and destruction of a siege.
		Although not of major military importance, the seven-month-long siege became one of the most famous episodes of the war, and the fate of the town assumed a symbolic importance for Britain and the Empire.
		The archive of Baden-Powell's second-in-command, Lieutenant-Colonel Courtenay Vyvyan, whose achievements have been largely overshadowed by his famous and flamboyant superior officer, is one of the most comprehensive single archives on the siege.
	www.up.ac.za /asservices/ais/gw/mafeking.htm (433 words)

	MAFEKING - Online Information article about MAFEKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mafeking was originally the headquarters of the Barolong tribe of See also:
		Bechuana and is still their largest station, the native location (pop.
		war in 1899 Mafeking was invested by a Boer force.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MAFEKING.html (459 words)

	"Johnny" Walker's Pages on Milestones to Scouting - The Mafeking Cadets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was the Mafeking Cadets who gave B-P the notion that boys were capable of being trained, and being extremely useful, even in the very dangerous environment of the besieged township.
		"Mafeking Boy Scouts" as B-P called them in 1908, but to try and indicate significance of the fundamental concept of the Law and Promise, and the very broad training scheme which was at the heart of his now world-wide movement.
		There were older boys in the Cadets, but Warner’s father was a Captain, and the first Mayor of Mafeking - and Mafeking was as class-conscious as the rest of Victorian society - it seemed fitting to them that the son of so worthy a father should hold rank himself, despite his age.
	www.scoutingmilestones.freeserve.co.uk /cadets.htm (5252 words)

	"Johnny" Walker's Pages on Milestones to Scouting - Mafeking Cadets Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Baden-Powell's Mafeking Staff Diary mentions a Mrs A Chowles who was an 'official Nurse' and she, as the only female Chowles in Mafeking, must have been the Cadet's Mother.
		As there was no Charles' family in Mafeking at the time of the Siege and Webster is known to have spelt other Cadets' names as they sounded to him rather than their correct spelling, I think it likely that Cpl Charles in in fact C Chowles.
		Family legend has it that 'Ned married the companion/maid and settled in Mafeking', Cadet C Chowles is thought to be their son.
	www.scoutingmilestones.freeserve.co.uk /cadetstablecopy.htm (1867 words)

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