Cape Colony

This article is about the specific polity Cape Colony and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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The Dutch founded the colony when they established Cape Town. The colony was a predecessor of modern-day South Africa.

Establishment

Chronology

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1. Xhosa Wars

Were a series of frontier wars of the Xhosa people of South Africa against the British Empire and the Boers. The Xhosa were eventually inglobated in the British Cape Colony.

1.1.First Xhosa War

Was a frontier war between Boer frontiersmen and the Xhosa people.

1.2.Second Xhosa War

Was a frontier war between Boer frontiersmen and the Xhosa people.

2. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

2.1.Boer revolt against the Dutch East India Company

In 1795 the dissatisfaction towards the Dutch East India Company (and against British Rule) caused a revolt of the Boers, who founded several secessionist states.

2.2.War of the Second Coalition

Was the second war that saw revolutionary France against most of the European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and Russia, and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples, and various German monarchies. Prussia did not join this coalition, and Spain supported France.

2.2.1.Treaty of Amiens

Was a treaty between France and Great Britain that ended the War of the Second Coalition.

3. Invasion of Cape Colony

As a consequence of the conquest of the Dutch Republic by French revolutionary forces, Great Britain invaded and annexed the Dutch Cape Colony.

4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

Disestablishment