WITH THE MOUNTED INFANTRY AND THE MASHONALAND FIELD FORCE

First Edition. 308pp + 40pp Publisher Catalogue dated February 1898. Frontispiece, 8 plates (one folding) + folding map in back. Original blue cloth a bright attractive copy. Old dealer listing laid in, priced £275
A detailed chronicle of the five months campaign to supress the rebellion the Africans of Mashonaland staged against Cecil Rhodes’s settlers. The Matabele Rebellion, which broke out in March, 1896, had by June of that year spread to Mashonaland. Alderson played a major part in the campaign which did not, in fact, end until October 1897.