British South Africa Company, London office papers, 1890-1908 (inclusive), [microform].

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British South Africa Company, London office papers, 1890-1908 (inclusive), [microform].

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The papers of the London office of the British South Africa Company, usually known as the Chartered Company, consist of bound volumes of typescript copies of outgoing correspondence, telegrams, reports, and other papers sent by the London office to its agents. The correspondence concerns such ongoing business of the company as shipments of goods, outfitting of staff, and administrative affairs in what is now Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Included in the discussions are references to negotiations with European powers in territorial claims, notes on contemporary political events, community affairs, geographical information, and on the activities of Cecil Rhodes.

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British South Africa company

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The British South Africa Company (BSAC) was a mercantile company based in London. It was incorporated in 1889 under a royal charter (at the instigation of Cecil Rhodes) with the object of acquiring and exercising commercial and administrative rights in south-central Africa. The charter gave the BSAC rights to maintain or distribute vast territory, to make treaties, to establish a police force, and to set up banking firms. By 1900, the BSAC was administering both Southern...

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