Author: Boucher, Maurice. & Penn, Nigel. (Eds).
Title: Britain at the Cape 1795 to 1803
Description: Second Series, No.9. The Brenthurst Press. 1992 1st edition. Unnumbered of 850 copies, total edition of 1000. Sea blue cloth boards. 263pp illustrated. 310mm x 250mm x 30mm. 1.4kg. No dustwrapper, Ex-library ('Withdrawn' Michigan State University). Lable to lower spine, date sheet and various library stamps to front end-papers else contents excellent. A sound clean copy. ISBN: 9780909079499 Chapter headings are: 1. The Capture Of The Cape 1795. 2. The Future Of The Colony. 3. Barrow's 'General Description' 1798. 4. Administrative And Financial Reform 1798. 5. The Macartney Administration, 1797 To 1798. 6. The Last Years, Dundas And Yonge, 1798 To 1803. A well illustrated and referenced look at Britain's first occupation of the Cape.

Keywords: cape of good hope cape colony sir john barrow earl george macartney francis dundas george yonge viscount melville brenthurst press second series


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