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This is a list of wars involving Botswana. List. Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Battle of Dimawe (1852) Various Botswana (Bakwena, Batlokwa, Balete, ...
Wars involving the Tswana people, the Bechuanaland Protectorate or modern Botswana (1966-). Pages in category "Wars involving Botswana" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
However, this first failed attempt may have inspired a second successful trip to Britain in 1895 during which Kgosi Khama III, Kgosi Sebele I, and Kgosi Bathoen I asked for Botswana's incorporation into the Bechuanaland Protectorate, a separate entity from Cecil Rhodes 's British South Africa Company or the South African Republic. [6]
The Botswana Defence Force (BDF, Tswana: Sesole Sa Botswana) is the military of Botswana. The main component of the BDF is the Botswana Ground Force ; there is also an air wing and a riverine patrol contingent attached to the ground forces, with 10 Panther airboats and 2 Boston Whaler Raider class.
The Raid on Gaborone (referred to as "Operation Plecksy" by the then South African Defence Force) took place on 14 June 1985 when South African Defence Force troops, under the order of General Constand Viljoen, crossed into Botswana violating International Law and attacked South African émigrés living in exile in Gaborone.
The Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), supported by former President Ian Khama who split from the BDP, has so far secured five seats while the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has got 14 seats as things ...
Pages in category "Battles involving Botswana" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The South African Wars, including but also known as the Confederation Wars, were a series of wars that occurred in the southern portion of the African continent between 1879 and 1915. Ethnic, political, and social tensions between European colonial powers and indigenous Africans led to increasing hostilities, culminating in a series of wars and ...