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MAFEKING , a See also:town in the See also:British See also:Bechuanaland See also:division of the Cape, 87o m. N.E. of Cape Town and 492 M. S.S.W. of See also:Bulawayo by See also:rail, and 162 m. in a See also:direct See also:line W. by N. of See also:Johannesburg. (Pop. 1904), 2713. It is built on the open veld, at an See also:elevation of 4194 ft., by the See also:banks of the Upper Molopo, is 9 m. W. of the western frontier of the See also:Transvaal and 15 M. S. of the See also:southern boundary of the Bechuanaland See also:protectorate. The Madibi goldfields are some 10 m. See also:south of the town. Mafeking is thus an important trading and distributing centre for Bechuanaland and the western Transvaal. Here are, too, the See also:chief railway workshops between See also:Kimberley and Bulawayo. The headquarters of the See also:administration for the Bechuanaland protectorate are in the town. The chief buildings are the town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, See also:Anglican See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, Masonic See also:temple, and See also:hospital.
Mafeking was originally the headquarters of the Barolong tribe of See also:Bechuana and is still their largest station, the native location (pop. 286o) being about a mile distant from the town. It was from Pitsani Pothlugo (or Potlogo), 24 M. See also:north of Mafeking, that Dr See also:Jameson started, on the 29th of See also:December 1895, on his See also:raid, into the Transvaal. On the outbreak of the Anglo-See also:Boer See also:war in 1899 Mafeking was invested by a Boer force. See also:Colonel R. S. S. See also:Baden-See also:Powell was in command of the See also:defence, which was stubbornly maintained for 217 days (Oct. 12 to May 17), when a See also:relief See also:column arrived and the Boers dispersed (see TRANSVAAL: See also:History). The See also:fate of the town had excited the liveliest sympathy in See also:England, and the exuberant rejoicings in See also:London 'on the See also:news of its relief led to the coining of the word maficking to describe the behaviour of crowds on occasions of extravagant demonstrations of a See also:national See also:kind. In See also:September 1904 See also:Lord See also:Roberts unveiled at Mafeking an See also:obelisk bearing the names of those who See also:fell in defence of the town.
R. S. S. Baden-Powell's Sketches in Mafeking and See also:East See also:Africa (19o7) and See also:Lady Sarah See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson's South See also:African Memories (1909) See also:deal largely with the See also:siege of Mafeking.
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