The Bechuanaland Field Force, under General Sir Charles Warren, was sent out to South Africa late in 1884 to settle disturbances arising from the insurgency of Boer freebooters who had set up the twin republics of Goshen and Stellaland in Tswana territory. No battle took place, diplomacy won the day, and hence the resemblance to the Great old Duke of York who, having 'marched his men to the top of the hill, marched them down again'.
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