The Battle of Blaauwberg, also known as the Battle of Cape Town, fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but significant military...
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Dutch Cape Colony (redirect from Commander of the Cape)
Battle of Blaauwberg at present-day Bloubergstrand. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 confirmed the transfer of sovereignty to Great Britain. Traders of...
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Cape Colony (redirect from Colony of the Cape of Good Hope)
Republic following the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. It was re-occupied by the British following the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, and British possession affirmed...
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The Battle of Blood River (16 December 1838) was fought on the bank of the Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 464 Voortrekkers...
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reoccupied the colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg and it remained a British colony until the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The French...
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First Boer War (category Military history of the British Empire)
Bechuanaland (later part of the Cape Colony). Following the Battle of Blaauwberg (1806) Britain had officially acquired the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa...
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description or an endorsement of white minority rule in South Africa. Proponents of baasskap constituted the largest faction of apartheid ideologues in the...
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was a group of four conflict photographers, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, active within the townships of South Africa...
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Treaty Tree (category History of Cape Town)
south of the rail line in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa. Peace was made under the tree on 10 January 1806 after the Battle of Blaauwberg, thereby...
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Sharpeville massacre (redirect from 1960 state of emergency)
crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South...
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