The Eastern Cape, especially the area around Grahamstown, is historically connected to the Frontier Wars. These are nine conflicts that pitted the British settlers against the Xhosa people. At top is a monument to the 1820 settlers, Brits who relocated to South Africa to settle the country. They had an enormous impact on the future of the region. At bottom, we are receiving a blow-by-blow account of the wartime key events by a local historian of the wars.
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