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VI. Sir George Grey, South Africa and the Imperial Military Burden, 1855–1860

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. B. Tyler
W. B. Tyler
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Sandringham School, Newham
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Sir Charles Lucas once made the comment that ‘South African history consists largely of wars and treaties between Boers and natives’. This is an interesting generalization but one that ignores the conflicts between the British and the natives. The imperial problem in South Africa during the period of this study was the provision of an adequate defence against actual, and in some cases, imagined attack from the Bantus. To people living in British South Africa this was a real problem; up to 1854 there had been seven ‘Kaffir wars’ involving the Cape Colony alone.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1971 , pp. 581 - 598
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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