He listened to their manifesto, and the instant they came to the mention of free trade in South Africa, he said: "That will do for me." The supposition that he desired to annex the Transvaal is absurd.[1] He has admitted that he gave his personal co-operation to Jameson without having first consulted his colleagues of the Chartered Company.

Jameson was to have gone to the assistance of the Uitlanders; not to forestall the insurrection, which was fixed for January 4th.

On December 29th, Jameson invaded the Transvaal with 480 men.

They got as far as Krugersdorp, about 31 miles distant from Johannesburg, and after a fight at Doornkop, in which the Raiders' losses were 18 killed and 40 wounded, and on the Boers' side four killed and five wounded, they surrendered on the condition that their lives should be spared.
That stipulation is forgotten when we fall to admiring President Krueger's magnanimity in handing over Jameson to the British Government.
[Footnote 1: Fitzpatrick.

"The Transvaal from Within." p.