The Jameson Raid and England's Anti-Mercenary Laws

摘要

One of the strongest official British criticisms of the 1896 Jameson Raid into the Transvaal Republic lies hidden away in the law reports of the Queen's Bench Division of the English High Court. A trooper injured on the Raid was bold enough to go to the English courts to sue Cecil Rhodes and Leander Jameson in their personal capacities for his injuries. The Court's findings are reported in Burrows vs Rhodes and Jameson, [1899] 1 Q B 816. (The case report, in pp 816-18, also puts a useful 'bare-bones' account of the facts on the public record).