Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-swr86 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-18T22:01:45.826Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Further Note on the MacDonald Expedition, 1897–1899

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. T. Matson
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Communication
Information
The Historical Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1969 , pp. 155 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 See P.R.O. files FO 2/136/144/158/174/175 and FO 27/3368; also Robinson, , Gallagher, and Denny, , Africa and the Victorians (1961), chap. 12;Google ScholarSanderson, , England, Europe and the Upper Nile (1965), chap. 11 and Journal of African History, v (1964), 94; Matson, Uganda Journal, xxix (1965), 98Google Scholar.

2 Salisbury Papers cited in Robinson op. cit. pp. 362–4.

3 FO 2/144; FO 2/136: War Office to Foreign Office 16 August 1897; Foreign Office to War Office 24 August 1897.

4 Minutes on Macdonald's despatches dated 13 November 1897 and 2 December 1897, FO 2–144. Hill's minute dated 8 February 1898, FO 2/158. Salisbury was far from well during the winter of 1897–8. The reference to the Uganda interlude stresses Salisbury's assessment of the relative importance of local problems and imperial interests.

5 Sanderson, op. cit. pp. 264–5.

6 Salisbury Papers cited in Sanderson, op. cit. pp. 257–8. The Inter-Departmental Rewards Committee rejected Macdonald's application for recognition for the soldiers who took part in his gruelling expedition (31 July 1899, FO 2/251).

7 FO 2/377; Matson, , ‘Macdonald' s MS history of the events of 1897 to 1899’, Uganda Journal xxxII (1968)Google Scholar. A search is being made to trace the MS.

8 See Grenville, , Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy (1964),Google Scholar chap. I, for a discussion on Salisbury' s secret foreign policy.

9 Austin, , With Macdonald in Uganda (1903), pp. 37, 158, 160;Google Scholar published by Arnold, who intended to publish the Macdonald MS. Austin referred briefly to the Macdonald expedition as a ‘mysterious venture’ of a military nature, in Some Rambles of a Sapper (Arnold, 1928), without offering any explanation of the grounds for this description. In September 1897, Macdonald disclosed his instructions under oath of secrecy to his former second-in-command, Woodward, and another senior officer; Macdonald to Foreign Office 21 September 1897, FO 2/144.

10 The expedition caused some speculation in the press and elsewhere about Salisbury' s aims and motives, e.g. The Times (weekly edition), quoted in Zanzibar Gazette 4 August 1897, referred to the ostensible purpose of the expedition but conjectured that' it was being made at Rennell Rodd' s suggestion and with Menelik' s approval; see also Zanzibar Gazette 13 October 1897 f°r Rhodes' advocacy in the Daily News of a British push from the south. See also Perham and Butt, Diaries of Lord Lugard, Iv, 330, 350.