Significant1799 – 1803 · 4 years

Third Cape Frontier War

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Zuurveld · Graaff-Reinet

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Joint Xhosa-Khoekhoe rising during the first British occupation of the Cape, the largest pre-1811 frontier war.

Belligerents4

British Empire
Dutch Cape Colony
Xhosa
Khoekhoe

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1783)

Conflict graph

PART OFCape Frontier Wars

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Roodewal, Cape Province1802
Battle of Sundays1802

Sources

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