Major conflict1850 – 1853 · 3 years

Eighth Cape Frontier War

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British Kaffraria · Waterkloof

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Mlanjeni's War, the longest and bloodiest of the Cape Frontier Wars, featuring the Waterkloof guerrilla campaign and Kat River rebellion.

Belligerents3

British Empire
Xhosa
Khoekhoe rebels

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)

Conflict graph

PART OFCape Frontier Wars

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Viervoet1851
Battle of Waterkloof1851
Battle of Berea Mountain1852
Battle of Iron Mountain, South Africa1852

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Eighth Cape Frontier War (1850 – 1853). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/eighth-cape-frontier-war · Sources & methodology