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A map of the frontier districts showing Settler locations, c. 1835. The 1820 Settlers were several groups of British colonists from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, settled by the government of the United Kingdom and the Cape Colony authorities in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1820.
In 1820, upon the advice of Lord Somerset, Parliament voted to spend £50,000 (£5,048,317 today) to promote migration to the Cape, encouraging 4,000 British people to migrate to the buffer area. These immigrants, now known as the 1820 Settlers, settled in an area they called Albany and grew settlements in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown.
The British started to settle the eastern border of the Cape Colony, with the arrival in Port Elizabeth of the 1820 Settlers. They also began to introduce the first rudimentary rights for the Cape's Black African population and, in 1834, abolished slavery ; however, the government proved unable to rein in settler violence against the San ...
The written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. [1] In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed ...
When the 1820 Settlers arrived in Port Elizabeth, the fort was already well-established. [1] The fort consists of the powder magazine and the blockhouse, which has lost its timber upper storey.Its original armaments consisted of two 8-pounder guns and one 5.5 inch Howitzer. The museum collection now also contains a varied selection of muzzle ...
The 1820 Settlers National Monument, [1] which honours the contribution to South African society made by the British 1820 Settlers, overlooks [2] Makhanda in the Eastern Cape. It commemorates the Anglo-Africans , as well as the English language, [ 3 ] as much as the settlers themselves.
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Category: 1820 Settlers. 2 languages. ... Sidbury, Eastern Cape This page was last edited on 15 August 2024, at 17:51 (UTC). Text is available under the ...