Author: Milton, John.
Title: The Edges of War. A History of Frontier Wars (1702-1878).
Description: Juta. Cape Town 1983 1st edition. Red cloth boards. 304pp illustrated 8vo. An absolutely Mint unread copy in matching dustwrapper. Untouched in original publishers brown paper wrapping. ISBN: 9780702113314 An account of the struggles between Europeans and Africans along the Eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Boers, and then the English settlers, came into conflict with the Xhosa tribes in the Eastern Cape, the struggle ending for the Xhosa with starvation and famine as a result of the Great Cattle Killing of 1857. Profusely illustrated with extensive notes and bibliography. An excellent account of the wars.

Keywords: 1820 eighteen twenty settlers military war kaffir kafir frontier war wars south southern africa african eastern cape koba ngqika john barrow fort frederick willshire cox armstrong governor janssens fish kat river grahamstown bathurst xhosa xhosaland maqom


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