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Rhodes ambitions for an overland Cape to Nile railway
A tracked plan by Cecil Rhodes to link the Cape of Good Hope with the Nile by an overland railway. The route would pass British territories via Bulawayo to Lake Tanganyika, then by land and water to the Nile, with telegraphic links and potential military support, aiming to bind Africa under British influence.
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