. A short history of England and the British Empire. but his forceswere composed of Englishand Egyptian soldiers. Theflags of England and Egyptwere both raised over thereconquered the JointSoudan is held occupation ofjointly by the the Soudan-two countries; but thepower of the khedive inCentral Africa is scarcelymore than a pretense: theSoudan is governed byBritish officials and is prop-erly counted as belongingto the British The Boers and the Outlanders. The Boers weredispleased with the advance of Cecil Rhodes and his tradingcompany into Rhodesia; but the
. A short history of England and the British Empire. but his forceswere composed of Englishand Egyptian soldiers. Theflags of England and Egyptwere both raised over thereconquered the JointSoudan is held occupation ofjointly by the the Soudan-two countries; but thepower of the khedive inCentral Africa is scarcelymore than a pretense: theSoudan is governed byBritish officials and is prop-erly counted as belongingto the British The Boers and the Outlanders. The Boers weredispleased with the advance of Cecil Rhodes and his tradingcompany into Rhodesia; but the invasion of the Rand by theEuropean fortune-hunters gave them even more made no attempt to make the gold fields attractive tothe Outlanders and hoped to make their stay as brief as Outlanders, however, objected to the treat- The griev_ment accorded to them: they were heavily taxed ances of theand were forced to do military service, while theright to become naturalized citizens was denied. them. As 1 Kendall, Nos. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum 606 THE UNIONISTS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE the majority were British subjects, they naturally turned tothe British government for support. Cecil Rhodes, who wasprime minister of Cape Colony, sympathized with the Out-landers, and Joseph Chamberlain watched events at Johan-nesburg with a rising interest. The Englishintervention government finally took up the cause of thein behalf of dissatisfied class and asked that the Outlanders the aliens. . be allowed to become citizens of the Boers refused : the Outlanders were becoming so numer-ous that they would probably outvote the Boers at the elec-tions ; their next step doubtless would be to invite annexationto the British crown, and the Boers would again become sub-ject to a government that they had once fled to escape. In the closing days of 1895 an English force under the com-mand of Dr. Leander Jameson, one of Cecil Rhodes officials inRhodesia, cro
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