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The British expedition was led by Vice-Admiral Sir George Elphinstone and sailed in April 1795, arriving off Simon's Town at the Cape in June. Attempts were made to negotiate a settlement with the colony, but talks achieved nothing and an amphibious landing was made on 7 August.
In 1795, after the Battle of Muizenberg in present-day Cape Town, the British occupied the colony. Under the terms of the Peace of Amiens of 1802, Britain ceded the colony back to the Dutch on 1 March 1803, but as the Batavian Republic had since nationalized the United East India Company (1796), the colony came under the direct rule of The Hague.
Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa – Mary Gunn & L.E. Codd (AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1981) [Dutch] Een Nederlander in de Wildernis: De Ontdekkingsreizen van Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) in Zuid-Afrika – Luc Panhuysen (Rijksmuseum Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers, Amsterdam, 2010)
Most lived in Cape Town and the surrounding farming districts of the Boland, an area favoured with rich soils, a Mediterranean Climate and reliable rainfall. Cape Town had a population of 16,000 people. [20] In 1814 the Dutch government formally ceded sovereignty over the Cape to the British, under the terms of the Convention of London.
The Cape was under Dutch rule from 1652 to 1795 and again from 1803 to 1806. [10] ... The Cape Town Legislative Council was also established in the same year.
The Netherlands fell to the French army under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1795. Reacting to the weakness of the Dutch East India Company holdings, a British force under Sir James Henry Craig set out for Cape Town to secure the colony for the Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange against the French. The governor of Cape Town ...
During the 1780s, troops of the French Royal Army were stationed in the Cape to prevent invasion by Great Britain. The Cape was invaded by the British in 1795 during the War of the First Coalition, and occupied until 1803. [5] Britain later formally annexed the Cape and later passed the Slave Trade Act 1807. It was enforced from 1808, ending ...
1795 British in power in Cape Colony. [8] ... Cape Town Mail newspaper begins publication. [20] Wynberg Boys' High School was founded. 1844 Maclear's Beacon was created;