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		The lifting of the Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.
		Aware of the approaching British relief columns, the Boers launched a final major attack on the evening of May 11, succeeded in breaching the perimeter defences and setting light to some of the town, but were finally beaten back.
		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking - William McGonagall's poem and a brief history of the siege.
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	Mafikeng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899, the town was besieged.
		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.
		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking - William McGonagall's poem and a brief history of the siege.
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	Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.
		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.
		Aware of the approaching British relief columns, the Boars launched a final major attack on the evening of May 11, succeeded in breaching the perimeter defences and setting light to some of the town, but were finally beaten back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Relief_of_Mafeking (892 words)

	Siege of Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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 men comprising men from the town.
		Mafeking was first shelled on the 16th after Baden-Powell ignored Cronje's 9 o'clock deadline to surrender.
		The siege was finally lifted on May 17, 1900, when British forces commanded by Colonel B T Mahon of the army of Lord Frederick Roberts relieved the town after fighting their way in.
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		The British public is awaiting the news of the invasion of Pretoria, but they wanted to know the outcome of the relief of Mafeking with more anxiety.
		Plumer sent a message by carrier-pigeon to the garrison that the two columns were on their way.
		In the afternoon shells exploding in the distance could be seen from Mafeking.
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		On the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899 Mafeking was invested by a Boer force and was under siege for 217 days.
		The siege and relief of the town had excited the liveliest sympathy in England, and there were exuberant rejoicings, called mafficking, in London on the news of its relief.
		In 1980 the spelling Mafikeng was restored and the town became part of the homeland of Bophuthatswana.
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	Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mafeking was first shelled on the 16 October after Baden-Powell ignored Cronje's 9 o'clock deadline to surrender.
		Having decided that the town was too heavily defended to take, on 19 November 4,000 Boers were redeployed elsewhere, although the siege remained and shelling of Mafeking continued.
		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking (http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/mpgmafeking.htm) - William McGonagall's poem and a brief history of the siege.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Relief_of_Mafeking (860 words)

	Mafikeng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On the outbreak of the Anglo- Boer War in 1899 the town was besieged.
		Mafeking briefly served as capital of the fl homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1970s before the adjoining of Mmabatho was established as the capital.
		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking (http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/mpgmafeking.htm) - William McGonagall 's poem and a brief history of siege.
	www.freeglossary.com /Mafikeng (425 words)

	Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On the outbreak of the Anglo- Boer War in 1899 Mafeking was invested by a Boer force and was under siege for 217 days.
		The siege and relief of the town had excitedthe liveliest sympathy in England, and there were exuberant rejoicings, called mafficking, in London on the news of itsrelief.
		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking - William McGonagall 's poem and a brief history of the siege.
	www.therfcc.org /mafeking-82761.html (418 words)

	relief of mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Relief of Mafeking was a key event in the second Boer War.
		The 1200 man garrison withstood assault for 217 days before the siege was broken by the British forces commanded by Colonel B.T. Mahon of the army of Lord Frederick Roberts on 12-16 May 1900, the relief dated on the 17th.
		There were immense celebrations in Britain at the news (briefly creating the verb maffick, meaning to celebrate both extravagantly and publicly) and then-Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, who had headed the defence of the town, was treated as a hero on his return to Britain in 1903.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Relief_of_Mafeking.html (169 words)

	The Age 150th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Very shortly after the relief of Kimberley a considerable number of troops were available to march northwards, by the middle of March an overwhelming force could be concentrated at Warrenton, north of the Vaal, quite capable of smashing the Boer force on the northern bank about Fourteen Streams.
		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.
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	Wilson: With the Flag to Pretoria. Chapter 25. The Relief of Mafeking.
		The Relief Force and its commander--Rapid advance of the Column--Halt at Vryburg--The younger Cronje across the line of advance--Colonel Rhodes' ingenious message--Skirmish with the enemy--Junction with Colonel Plumer's force--Artillery fight--Cronje outwitted-The relief effected.
		On March 21, Colonel Plumer was within 6 miles of Mafeking, and a portion of his force, consisting of about 200 mounted men, came into collision with the Boers who were investing the town.
		It was at the Siege and Defense of Mafeking during the South African (Anglo-Boer) War that Baden-Powell made his name and first gained public recognition.
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	Mafikeng (Mmabatho) - History - The Siege of Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		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.
		The news of the relief of Mafeking unleashed unprecedented mass celebrations in the streets of London.
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	Mafeking
		He was not content to sit still and wait for what the Boers might do; he knew that action was important for keeping up the spirits of his men, and that surprise moves would worry the Boers more than anything else.
		The way in which Mafeking held out came as one of the bright spots in an otherwise gloomy picture.
		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.
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	The Relief of Mafeking
		Mafeking was a British held town in South Africa that the Boers sieged during the South African War.
		This siege went on from 12th October 1899 until the 17th May 1900 when the British held the Boers off until the British Garrison arrived and the town was relieved on 17th May 1900.
		So on the 21st May 1900 the departments celebrated the Relief of Mafeking.
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	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.
		The whole Empire was watching, determined to demonstrate that there was "no place so inaccessible that the long arm of the empire cannot reach it when her children are in peril".
		The long-awaited relief column arrived on 17th May 1900 and united with Baden-Powell's ragged command to drive of the Boer forces.
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk /poems/mpgmafeking.htm (1292 words)

	:: Boer War: Siege of Mafeking ::
		This site is has been developed specifically to assist research into the Siege and Colin Walker welcomes contact from family historians and in particular from descendants of the besieged.
		His Mafeking Siege Register database now contains over 1800 names of those besieged in Mafeking together with their day by day activities.
		Colin would be pleased to freely respond to any enquiries from those seeking genealogical information on the basis that writers are prepared to share information on any of the besieged before and after their time in Mafeking.
	www.genealogyworld.net /boer/mafeking.html (339 words)

	State Library of Queensland - Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The only Australians at the relief of Mafeking on May 17th 1900 were all Queenslanders - four officers and 100 other ranks with Major C W Kellie comanding.
		Part of the journey to Mafeking for the Queenslanders was a 280 mile trip in coaches drawn by mules, horses and bullock teams from Marandellas to Bulawayo.
		The journey from Port Beira to Mafeking for Major Kellie and his Queenslanders acting as escorts for a six gun Canadian artillery unit, had taken a tiring 23 days - the last 80 miles on foot.
	www.slq.qld.gov.au /qh/treasures/boerwar/exhibition/mafeking?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer_friendly (220 words)

	Encyclopedia: Siege of Mafeking
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		McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking (http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/mpgmafeking.htm) - William McGonagall's poem and a brief history of the siege.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
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	The Twickenham Museum : The Relief of Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		News of the Relief of Mafeking brought out the crowds in Richmond, Hounslow, Isleworth, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Teddington and Brentford on the 18th May. The crowds in London "mafficked" on getting the official news on Friday 18th May, and continued to celebrate until the following Wednesday.
		Just about nine o'clock a light was seen moving on the top of Holy Trinity Church and many were the conjectures as to what was going to happen in the tower of the sacred edifice.
		Then a pretty effect was obtained by the lighting of coloured fire upon the church, throwing the splendid architecture into charming relief and glinting on the fine old ivy which climbs up its walls.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=272 (1280 words)

	Journal Journey - This Is Worcestershire archive
		THE RELIEF of Mafeking and an assassination attempt on King George III were the historic events which captured the headlines in the World's oldest newspaper this week exactly a century ago and 200 years ago.
		Berrow's Journal of May 26, 1900, was packed with dispatches from South Africa on the Relief of Mafeking.
		He pleaded guilty and explained that he was returning from celebrations for the Relief of Mafeking.
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	The MacScouter -- Scouting Resources Online
		The men at Post A learned that trackers discovered traces of a Boer commando moving towards Mafeking, and established its strength on the basis of 220 individual pairs of feet (440 feet).
		In order that the garrison at Mafeking would know help was on its way, patrols had to fire a beacon to a height of at least 3 yards above grade.
		And so they relieved Mafeking, but the total success of the venture had yet to be determined.
	www.macscouter.com /Games/ReliefofMafekingOrig.html (2571 words)

	icWales - Patriotic display at relief of Mafeking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mafeking became a symbol of the Empire's implacable will and all through that winter the Echo carried constant reports on its defence - no siege till Stalingrad was ever more celebrated.
		But no one has ever explained the spontaneous outburst of joy when news of the relief came, as people stampeded on to the streets to cheer their new hero, Baden-Powell.
		He'd already received a congratulatory telegram from the mayor, Alderman S A Brain (Yes, that S A), told of the Relief by the Echo - we'd got the news by 'telephone communication' ahead of the official release.
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	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: British Cavalry: 1822 - 1922: 13th Hussars: Colonels: Baden Powell
		While he was on leave in England in 1899 he was summarily appointed to raise a force of mounted rifles to be based in Mafeking with the secret aim of making raids on the Boers in Transvaal.
		Mafeking was beseiged by a superior force of Boers on October 12th 1899 which lasted for 217 days until May 17th 1900.
		The relief of Mafeking was celebrated throughout the Empire as it was the first victory the British had achieved in the Boer War.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/13thhussarsbadenpowell.htm (353 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - South African War - The Relief of the Siege of Mafeking
		On 13 October 1899, only two days after the outbreak of war, Boer forces began to besiege the hamlet of Mafeking, located in northern Cape Colony only 13 kilometres from the Transvaal frontier.
		In April 1900, with the Boers at last in retreat and on the defensive, the British began a major effort to relieve Mafeking.
		Two columns would converge on the town: one would march northwards from the British lines on the Modder River, while a second would strike south from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in conjunction with the Rhodesian Field Force commanded by Colonel Herbert Plumer.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/boer/battlemafeking_e.html (407 words)

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		The Relief of Mafeking is a series of assignments.
		Relief of Mafeking Honor Patrol to receive special camporee shirts
		First Aid (D) - One of the Mafeking scouts most important jobs was to help care for the wounded.
	www.trailblazerdistrict.com /camporee/patrolmafeking.htm (2514 words)

	Apache District News
		Nearly a hundred years after the Siege of Mafeking, the exploits and wisdom of Baden-Powell still inspire and serve as wonderful opportunities for great fun in the game of Scouting.
		In their quest to aid in the Relief of Mafeking, patrols will encounter several obstacles where they will need certain equipment to complete their task.
		In putting their gear together for this, they should remember that The Relief of Mafeking took place in 1899, not 2007.
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