The Cape Frontier Wars 1834-78

 

Africa Punitive Strike
Early and Late British vs Xhosa
 

In the 19th Century, the British and Boers fought the Xhosa in a series of Cape Frontier Wars: the Sixth (1834); the Seventh (1846-7); the Eighth (1850-53); and the Ninth (1877-8). 

 

All these followed the same pattern: with a Xhosa uprising and heavy raiding being eventually squashed by punitive British and European Volunteer columns striking against Xhosa kraals.

 

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