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The plan was to claim that the Uitlanders were being persecuted and denied civil rights by the Boers
Jameson had a force of 600 ‘private individuals’ on the border of Transvaal. They were to await a supposed ‘uprising’ of Uitlanders and would ride in to ‘restore order’
Uitlanders fellow conspirators had difficulties coordinating an uprising.
Jameson decided to invade anyway hoping to spur them in to action.