The 'Valiant Englishman'

This book describes the career of an English aristocrat, Christopher Bethell.The book is a reminder that, in the author's words, "past relations between South Africa's different races were characterised as much by collusion and collaboration as they were by hostility, friction and dissent."

Andrew Manson is research Fellow at University of South Africa. Previously he was a Research Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at North West University.

1. Setting the Scene: 'Bundled off to the Cape' 2. The Barolong and Crisis in the Cis-Molopo 3. Bethell with the Ratshidi-Barolong, 1879-1880 4. The Looming Misery: The First Anglo-Boer War, 1880-1881 5. The Freebooters in Bechuanaland Wars 6. The First Siege of Mafikeng, January-October 1882 7. 'Canon's Mouth': Surrender and a Peace Treaty 8. The Boer Republic of Goshen 9. The Northern Batswana Alliance 10. Christopher Bethell's Marriage and Kgosi Montshiwa, 1883-1884 11. Reverend John Mackenzie: Towards British Protection 12. Ntwa ya Tigele:The Battle of Tigele, 30 July 1884 13. The Consequences of Bethell's Death 14. Establishing a Crown Colony: The Warren Expedition of 1885 15. Bethell's Death in Historical Context 16. The 'Valiant Englishman'