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The Fourth War was the first experienced under British rule. The Zuurveld acted as a buffer zone between the Cape Colony and Xhosa territory, empty of the Boers and British to the east and the Xhosa to the west. In 1811, the Xhosa occupied the area, and flashpoint conflicts with encroaching settlers followed.
The Battle of Grahamstown took place on 22 April 1819, during the Fifth Xhosa War (1818-1819), at the frontier settlement of Grahamstown in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The confrontation involved the defence of the town by the British garrison, aided by a group of Khoekhoe marksmen, from an attack by a large force of ...
The war of 1817–1819 led to the first wave of immigration of British settlers of any considerable scale, an event with far-reaching consequences. The then-governor, Lord Charles Somerset, whose treaty arrangements with the Xhosa chiefs had proved untenable, wished to buffer the Cape from contact with the Xhosa by settling white colonists in the border region.
For nearly 100 years subsequently, the Xhosa fought the settlers sporadically, first the Boers or Afrikaners and later the British. In the Fourth Xhosa War, which lasted from 1811 to 1812, the British colonial authorities forced the Xhosa back across the Great Fish River and established forts along this boundary. [82]
Malaboch War 1894 [3] Campaign against Chief Makgoba (Magoeba) 1895 [3] Campaign against Bantu chief M'pefu (Mpefu) of the Venda people, 1898 [3] [4] Jameson Raid (British-Boer conflict) 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896; Second Matabele War (British-Matabele conflict) also known as the Matabeleland Rebellion March 1896 – October 1897
4th Xhosa War (1811–1812) United Kingdom Cape Colony: Xhosa tribes British victory. Xhosa tribes pushed beyond the Fish River, reversing their gains in the previous Xhosa wars War of 1812 (1812–1815) United Kingdom. British North America; Tecumseh's Confederacy. United States: Inconclusive or other outcome
The Xhosa had settled in the Zuurveld (later called Albany), a district between the Bushman's and Fish rivers, which lay beyond the Cape Colony's frontiers. The Zuurveld was mistakenly assumed by the colonial government to be part of the colony as they misread the frontier laid down by Governor Joachim van Plettenberg in 1778. [1]
Andries, his health ruined by this expedition (he remained in poor health the rest of his life), called on the British government to institute an inquiry into the war, maintaining that it had been prolonged needlessly but the new governor, Sir Harry Smith, ostentatiously blamed the Stockenström treaty system for being the cause of the war. In ...