Griqualand place
also: Greco Land, Greek-a-land, Grigoland
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United Kingdom annexed
Griqualand documented
“gave the South African governor permission to annex Grigoland. Go ahead and take that, inner diamonds. Sound familiar? Mm-hmm. So you get thousands of these miners swarm into Grigoland. Grigoland disappears from the history books. They trie…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Cecil RhodesMaritime Empires @ 36:38
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▶ 36:28
near Kimberley, they found a 78-carat diamond. Now, remember, Rhodes, at the time, was 18 years old. Kimberley was part of a country then that was called Greek-a-land. Greek-a-land was a multicultural, middle-of-nowhere, anti-colonial count…
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So you get thousands of these miners swarm into Greco Land. Greco Land disappears from the history books. They tried to rebel in 1879. There's an armed rebellion, which led to a complete massacre. And that's Greco Land. But Cecil Rhodes get…