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British Colonisation of South Africa
Cape Colony became British as a result of the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars. As British
laws and customs grew to dominate life in the colony, the Boers departed to seek their own,
independent existence. They settled inland while the British spread along the coast, surrounding the
isolated Boers. The discovery of gold and diamonds turned Britain’s attention to the interior,
precipitating the inevitable clash.
The Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope was given “protection” by the British in 1795
when the English were at war with France, of which the Netherlands was a client state. The
settlement was yielded up to the Dutch in 1803 under the Treaty of Amiens, taken again when the war
was renewed, and kept by the British in 1814 under agreement reached at the Congress of Vienna
when the Napoleonic Wars were finally over. The farms then supplied the British ships on the route
to the east just as they had supplied the Dutch before them.
The British presence led to the abolition of slavery in the Colony in 1834 and the imposition of
English language and government on the inhabitants. As the Boers undertook the Great Trek to
colonise the interior, so the British established themselves along the coast at Port Elizabeth, East
London and Port Natal, which was to become Durban. Natal was annexed in 1845. The people of
Dutch origin were thus cut off from contact with the outside world and, armed with a faith in a God
who had demonstrated his favour to them, preserved a farming culture that became increasingly at
odds with the commercial and imperial imperatives that influenced the British. These influences were
strengthened by the discovery of mineral wealth, much of it in Boer territory, the exploitation of
which could be achieved only with capital investment the British alone were in a position to make.
See also:
Great Trek, The; Rhodes, Cecil.
Reference:
Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
British Forces
When Sir Alfred Milner was appointed High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of Cape
Colony in 1897, there were at most 10,000 British troops within his jurisdiction. As the likelihood of
war against the Boers increased, largely because of Milner’s influence, reluctant steps were taken to
reinforce the British presence by moving troops from India and the Mediterranean. The British
Commander-in-Chief at the outbreak of the war, General Sir Redvers Buller, was of the opinion that
at least 50,000 men would be required to win a war against the Boers. By the end of the war over
250,000 regular soldiers and around 110,000 volunteers from Britain, over 30,000 volunteers from
other countries of the British Empire and more than 50,000 men from South Africa had been involved,
and it may be that
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