The severe losses in carriers at Midway prevented Preventing_or_letting the Japanese from reattempting to invade Attack Port Moresby from the ocean and helped Assistance prompt Causation their ill-fated land offensive over the Kokoda Track .

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 .