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A Further Note on the MacDonald Expedition, 1897–1899
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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1 See P.R.O. files FO 2/136/144/158/174/175 and FO 27/3368; also Robinson, , Gallagher, and Denny, , Africa and the Victorians (1961), chap. 12;Google ScholarSanderson, , England, Europe and the Upper Nile (1965), chap. 11 and Journal of African History, v (1964), 94; Matson, Uganda Journal, xxix (1965), 98Google Scholar.
2 Salisbury Papers cited in Robinson op. cit. pp. 362–4.
3 FO 2/144; FO 2/136: War Office to Foreign Office 16 August 1897; Foreign Office to War Office 24 August 1897.
4 Minutes on Macdonald's despatches dated 13 November 1897 and 2 December 1897, FO 2–144. Hill's minute dated 8 February 1898, FO 2/158. Salisbury was far from well during the winter of 1897–8. The reference to the Uganda interlude stresses Salisbury's assessment of the relative importance of local problems and imperial interests.
5 Sanderson, op. cit. pp. 264–5.
6 Salisbury Papers cited in Sanderson, op. cit. pp. 257–8. The Inter-Departmental Rewards Committee rejected Macdonald's application for recognition for the soldiers who took part in his gruelling expedition (31 July 1899, FO 2/251).
7 FO 2/377; Matson, , ‘Macdonald' s MS history of the events of 1897 to 1899’, Uganda Journal xxxII (1968)Google Scholar. A search is being made to trace the MS.
8 See Grenville, , Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy (1964),Google Scholar chap. I, for a discussion on Salisbury' s secret foreign policy.
9 Austin, , With Macdonald in Uganda (1903), pp. 37, 158, 160;Google Scholar published by Arnold, who intended to publish the Macdonald MS. Austin referred briefly to the Macdonald expedition as a ‘mysterious venture’ of a military nature, in Some Rambles of a Sapper (Arnold, 1928), without offering any explanation of the grounds for this description. In September 1897, Macdonald disclosed his instructions under oath of secrecy to his former second-in-command, Woodward, and another senior officer; Macdonald to Foreign Office 21 September 1897, FO 2/144.
10 The expedition caused some speculation in the press and elsewhere about Salisbury' s aims and motives, e.g. The Times (weekly edition), quoted in Zanzibar Gazette 4 August 1897, referred to the ostensible purpose of the expedition but conjectured that' it was being made at Rennell Rodd' s suggestion and with Menelik' s approval; see also Zanzibar Gazette 13 October 1897 f°r Rhodes' advocacy in the Daily News of a British push from the south. See also Perham and Butt, Diaries of Lord Lugard, Iv, 330, 350.