1795 AD–1806 AD
Britain occupies and retains the Cape Colony
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Companies, trade & extraction · Slavery & coerced labor · War & conquest
Britain occupied the Cape in 1795, briefly restored it, and retook it in 1806 to control the route to India. The change in sovereignty reordered relations among Dutch-speaking settlers, Khoikhoi, San, and Xhosa peoples, enslaved people, and the new colonial state
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