Person

Bathoen I

d. 1910 · 20th century

Bathoen I was chief of the Bangwaketse, a Tswana people of southern Botswana, from 1889 until his death in 1910, ruling from Kanye. In 1895 he travelled to Britain with Khama III and Sebele I to oppose the planned transfer of the Bechuanaland Protectorate to Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company, and their campaign persuaded the Colonial Office to keep the protectorate under the Crown.

Bathoen I
Image: Most likely Edwin Lloyd · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 2 state histories

Bangwaketse ChiefdomBechuanaland Protectorate

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