IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141413
accession number:	CM.1319-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes in an attempt to match the successes of the British East India Company from the base of the British Cape Colony (now South Africa) into the briefly-Portuguese territories to the north, an area soon known as Rhodesia. The Company, given a royal charter in 1889, recruited its own forces and from 1890 onwards significant engagements resulted in the award of this medal to those troops.
One of their opponents was Lobengula Kumalo, King of the Matabele, a Zulu people who had established a separate nation in the early nineteenth century. This nation became one of the BSAC's target territories and fear of the imminent colonisation led to attacks on Company territories in Bechuanaland (in the Cape Colony, now South Africa) in 1893. The attacks were met with Maxim guns and slaughter by the far better-equipped Company troops, although this did not prevent the Matabele from rising again in 1896.
The bar on this medal, which was awarded to Trooper M. E. Burns of the Bechuanaland Border Police, indicates participation in the 1893 campaign. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.
title:	British South Africa Company Medal (Matabeleland 1893)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141413





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1894 - 1894
creation date earliest:	1894
creation date latest:	1894

CREATORS
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maker: Birmingham
maker: British South Africa Company
maker: Caton Woodville, R.
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Victoria regina

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.7

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 37.75



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals
CITATIONS
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British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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