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    The Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars or the Kaffir Wars) were a series of nine wars (from 1779 to 1879) between the Xhosa Kingdom and...
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  • provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
    137 KB (1,154 words) - 01:08, 6 August 2024
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    Commando (category Boer Wars)
    units of Boer mounted infantry, who fought during the Xhosa Wars and the First and Second Boer Wars. The Dutch word kommando, in turn, originated from the...
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  • as a civilian in the British Army commissariat in 1846 during the Seventh Xhosa War. In 1849, Rorke purchased a farmstead in the Colony of Natal, on the...
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    interests during the Uruguayan Civil War. The regiment then sailed on to the Cape Colony to take part in the Seventh Xhosa War. In 1852 a detachment from the...
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    served as a brigade major. As a second captain he saw service in the 7th Xhosa War, 1846–1847 during which he drew military sketches of British Kaffraria...
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  • Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Commissioned, he then served in the Seventh Xhosa War. He rose through the ranks of the Royal Artillery, being promoted...
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  • rebuilt in 1846 to deal with the Seventh Xhosa War. On 29 December 1850, during the Eighth Frontier War with the Xhosas, some 220 British troops were forced...
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    45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot (category Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Peninsular War)
    Loutre's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War as well as the Peninsular War, the First Anglo-Burmese War and the Xhosa Wars. Under...
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    Cape of Good Hope where it landed in April 1846 for service in the Seventh Xhosa War. It embarked for England in January 1847. It sailed to Balaklava in...
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    Edward Rooper (category British military personnel killed in the Crimean War)
    1846 and was promptly posted to the Kei where he took part in the Seventh Xhosa War, mainly in the Amatola Mountains. At the end of hostilities he was...
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    Bantu peoples of South Africa (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
    cattle grew sparking the first war that set to drive Xhosa people out of Zuurveld by 1781. The second war involved a larger Xhosa territory between the Great...
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  • in 1845. He was present "during almost every occasion" during The Seventh Xhosa War. He was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1847, colonel in 1854 and general...
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    Buffalo River, overlooking the harbour of East London. The Seventh Xhosa War, also known as the War of the Axe, broke out in 1846. Type of site: Powder Magazine...
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    James Richard Dacres (Royal Navy officer, born 1788) (category War of 1812 prisoners of war held by the United States)
    Province during the Seventh Xhosa War was named Fort Dacres in his honour. The construction was carried out by sailors of the British man-of-war HMS President...
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    Sandile kaNgqika (category Xhosa people)
    the Right Hand House of the Xhosa Kingdom. A dynamic leader, he led the Xhosa armies in several of the Xhosa-British Wars. Having recently been equipped...
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    Sarili kaHintsa (category Xhosa people)
    was the King of Xhosa nation from 1835 until his death in 1892 at Sholora, Bomvanaland. He was also known as "Kreli", and led the Xhosa armies in a series...
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    South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric...
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    to 9 August 1838. His efforts in restraining colonists from moving into Xhosa lands served to make him immensely unpopular among the settlers of the Cape...
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    Egyptian–Ottoman War lasted from 1839 until 1841 and was fought mainly in Syria. It has sometimes been referred to as the Syrian War or Second Syrian War. In 1839...
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