The Jameson Raid ( 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896 ) was a botched raid Attack against the South African Republic ( commonly known as the Transvaal ) carried out Action by British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Company troops ( `` police '' in the employ Employment of Alfred Beit 's and Cecil Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ) and Bechuanaland policemen over the New Year weekend of 1895–96 .

The raid Attack was intended to trigger an uprising Change_of_leadership by the primarily British expatriate workers ( known as Uitlanders ) in the Transvaal but failed to do so .

The Second Boer War ( 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902 ) was fought Hostile_encounter between the British Empire and two Boer states , the South African Republic ( Republic of Transvaal ) and the Orange Free State , over the Empire 's influence in South Africa .

The British seized Hold control of all of the Orange Free State and Transvaal , as the civilian leadership went Self_motion into hiding or exile .

Only a few months earlier , the British South Africa Company 's Administrator General for Matabeleland , Leander Starr Jameson , had sent Sending most of his troops and armaments to fight Hostile_encounter the Transvaal Republic in the ill-fated Jameson Raid .

The action consisted of a Boer attack Attack on horseback on an entrenched British hillside position in the valley of Rooiwal , near Klerksdorp in the Western Transvaal .

This was the end of the war in the Western Transvaal and also the last major battle of the Anglo-Boer War .

Background - the war in the Western Transvaal .

By 1902 , there were roughly 3,000 Boer guerrillas operating Being_in_operation in Western Transvaal .

Herbert Kitchener had over 16,000 troops operating Being_in_operation in the Western Transvaal , but many of them were not regulars , but poorly trained Education_teaching Imperial Yeomanry .