Identifier: historyofafricas03thea (find matches)
Title: History of Africa south of the Zambesi : from the settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Theal, George McCall, 1837-1919
Subjects: Ethnology Portuguese
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Unwin ltd.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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occurrences which ended with the surrender of the colony to the English. He made out that for three months and a half he had defended the Cape against a force of five thousand five hundred soldiers and twenty-three ships of war, and that to the misconduct and lack of courage of the burghers his ultimate failure was chiefly due. The matter was referred by the National Assembly to a committee termed the Commission for Foreign Affairs, to make the necessary investigation and to prepare a report. j Shortly afterwards a document drawn up by an engineer officer named Thibault, who remained in Cape-town, was received at the Hague, and in it Mr. Sluysken's conduct was exhibited in the most unfavourable light. The consideration of the contents of this paper caused some delay, so that the Commission for Foreign Affairs was unable to deliver its report before the 21st of October. The members were of opinion that with the slender means of defence at his command the commissioner-gen- settlement in the year 1795,
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W A-. A TT John gtOP .T,TTTrtt*»fi TTrhriVn-ir^h The places where there were courts of law were Capetown, city founded in April 1652, Stellenbosch, village founded in December 1679, Swellendam, village founded in October 1746, Graaff-Reinet, village founded in October 1786.The churches were at Cape town, established in August 1665, Stellenbosch, established in January 1687, Drakenstein; established in December 1691, Roodezand (now Tulbagh), established in October 1743, Zwartland (now Malmesbury), established in July 1745, Graaff-Reinet, established in October 1792. Capetown, established in December 1780. Moravian 1 Genadendal, established in December mission J 1792. Dutchreformed Lutheran Map X. This map shows the extent of the settlement in the year 1795.

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