Regional1779 – 1879 · 100 years
Cape Frontier Wars
Cape Colony · Eastern Cape · Xhosa territory
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Umbrella for nine wars between the Cape Colony (Dutch then British) and the Xhosa peoples over the Eastern Cape frontier. See per-war entries.
Belligerents4
- British Empire
- Cape Colony
- Xhosa
- Dutch Cape Colony
ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1763)
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 11
- First Cape Frontier War1779–81
- Battle of Fish River1781
- Second Cape Frontier War1789–93
- Third Cape Frontier War1799–1803
- Fourth Cape Frontier War1811–12
- Fifth Cape Frontier War1818–19
- Battle of Takoon1823
- Sixth Cape Frontier War1834–36
- Seventh Cape Frontier War1846–47
- Eighth Cape Frontier War1850–53
- Ninth Cape Frontier War1877–79
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Cape Frontier Wars (1779 – 1879). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/cape-frontier-wars · Sources & methodology