Xhosa Wars begin

Name: Xhosa Wars begin
Start: 1779
End: 1879
Location: Great Fish River, South Africa

1779–1879 · Great Fish River, South Africa · Africa · War

A century of conflict on the Cape frontier

In 1779 the first of nine wars between the Xhosa people and colonists — first Dutch Boers, later the British — broke out along the Great Fish River. The Frontier Wars went on for a century and ended in 1879 with the Xhosa brought under the Cape Colony.

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