Eigth Xhosa War
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Was a frontier war between the British Cape Colony and the Xhosa people.
Chronology
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December 1850: On 24 December, a British detachment of 650 men under Colonel Mackinnon was ambushed by Xhosa warriors in the Boomah Pass. The party was forced to retreat to Fort White, under heavy fire from the Xhosa, having sustained forty-two casualties.
December 1850: during Christmas festivities in towns throughout the border region of British Kaffraria, apparently friendly Xhosa entered the towns to partake in the festivities. At a given signal though, they fell upon the settlers who had invited them into their homes and killed them.
January 1851: The Khoi of the Blinkwater River Valley and Kat River Settlement revolted against the British, under the leadership of a half-Khoi, half-Xhosa chief Hermanus Matroos, and managed to capture Fort Armstrong.
Was a British military action during the Eigth Xhosa War.
January 1851: The British expelled the remainder of Hermanus' rebel forces (now under the command of Willem Uithaalder) from Fort Armstrong and drove them west toward the Amatola Mountains.
February 1852: Insurgents led by Maqoma established themselves in the forested Waterkloof. Only Waterkloof remains in Xhosa hands.
March 1853: In February 1853, Sandile and the other Xhosa chiefs surrendered to the British.
January 1851: Xhosa forces were repulsed in separate attacks on Fort White and Fort Hare.
