The Jameson Raid was a botched raid on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic carried out by a British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen over the New Year weekend of 189596. It was intended to trigger an uprising by the primarily British expatriate workers (known as Uitlanders) in the Transvaal but failed to do so. The workers were called the Johannesburg conspirators. They were expected to recruit an army and prepare for an insurrection.
The raid was ineffective and no uprising took place, but it was an inciting factor in the Second Boer War and the Second Matabele War.
Originally Posted by Fuchs
Dunno what a political raid could be.
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