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Significant1846 – 1847 · 1 year

War of the Axe

British Kaffraria · Amathole Mountains

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Seventh Cape Frontier War, also known as the War of the Axe, ending in British annexation of British Kaffraria.

Belligerents2

  • British Empire
  • Xhosa

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: War of the Axe (1846 – 1847). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/war-of-the-axe · Sources & methodology