Significant1779 – 1781 · 2 years

First Cape Frontier War

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Zuurveld · Fish River · Eastern Cape

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Second Xhosa-Boer frontier war involving Ndlambe and Rharhabe Xhosa against trekboer commandos.

Belligerents3

Dutch Cape Colony
Xhosa (Rharhabe)
Xhosa

Conflict graph

PART OFCape Frontier Wars

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: First Cape Frontier War (1779 – 1781). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/first-cape-frontier-war · Sources & methodology