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[one of the Kaffir Wars, also called Cape
Frontier Wars]
| State |
Entry |
Exit |
Combat Forces |
Population |
Losses |
| Britain |
1846 |
1878 |
50000 |
26000000 |
16000 |
| Kaffirs |
1846 |
1878 |
120000 |
1000000 |
40000 |
Cape Frontier Wars also called KAFFIR, OR
KAFIR, WARS (1779-1879), 100 years of intermittent warfare between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. One of the most prolonged struggles by African peoples against European intrusion, it ended in the annexation of Xhosa territories by the Cape Colony and the incorporation of its peoples...
After the failure of several treaties, war broke out again, in 1846, over a trivial incident, and in a bitter struggle the Xhosa were defeated once more. After this war the British government annexed the old neutral territory as the Crown Colony of British
Kaffraria.
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