Bechuanaland Expedition

Bechuanaland Expedition
Part of the Boer Wars
Town hall of modern-day Vryburg
Date December 1884–August 1885 Location Southern Africa Result British victory: British annexation of Stellaland is successful.
Belligerents
Stellaland  South African Republic	United Kingdom British Bechuanaland
Commanders and leaders
Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk Paul Kruger	Sir Charles Warren Cecil Rhodes

The Bechuanaland Expedition or Warren Expedition, of late 1884/1885, was a British military expedition to the Tswana country, to assert British sovereignty in the face of encroachments from Germany and the Transvaal, and to suppress the Boer states of Stellaland and Goshen.