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Battle of Fish River

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South Africa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Fish River (1781), part of the Cape Frontier War. Dutch Cape Colony defeated Xhosa.

Belligerents2

Dutch Cape Colony
Xhosa

Conflict graph

PART OFCape Frontier Wars

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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