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… special attention during the 1780s when the VoC, fearing a British attack on the Cape, accepted the assistance of a … Burgher Reddoubte, and remained in use until 1827 when the British military issued orders that all forts excepting Fort … and had to be extensively restored in 1795 by the new British administration. It was declared a National Monument …

… for themselves. Major Henry Douglas Warden (then the British resident for the area North of the Orange River) … which was made out of sun-dried bricks. In 1854, The British Government abandoned the Orange River Sovereignty and … Steyn (1896-1900) also resided in the building until the British occupation of Bloemfontein on 13 March 1900 when the …

… Government was forced to flee Pretoria before advancing British forces. His wife continued to live there however, … death on 20 July 1901. After her death it was used by the British Military Police until 1904 when it was acquired by FC … internationally for his struggle for freedom from the British during the Second Boer War (1899 - 1902) . Both the …

… owes its origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin was the Acting … secondment in South Africa. Shortly after the arrival of British settlers in the Bay, Donkin had a pyramid of stone … Battalion with distinction and received the KCB. Later the British government deployed him in India. He was in active …

… conquered all of the Sudan region by 1874 and encouraged British interference there. This aroused Muslim opposition … lasted until 1898, when these forces were defeated by the British. The British ruled, generally in partnership with Egypt , until …

… Arab traders arrived in Uganda in the 1840s, whereas British explorers started arriving in 1862. In 1894 Uganda became a British Protectorate . The country is known for rich mineral …

… Town suburb of Claremont. Named after Roger Arderne, a British immigrant who owned the estate, of which it was part! …

… Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch … “Ironically, these defences had been strengthened by the British as soon as they had taken over Cape Town in 1795. …

… in Pretoria , South Africa. Founded around 1905 by the British Army, and called: Roberts Heights , after Lord … iron houses on the military base and was erected by the British shortly after the South African War . Since the …

… of their power, and at the same time draw them into the British realm. The College educated the sons and daughters of … the visible remnants of Governor Grey’s vision for an all-British, all-race utopia ruled forever from Westminster …

… Republic) in 1852.  The region was annexed by the British in 1877, but a Boer rebellion restored it in 1881. … South African Republic became the Transvaal Colony under British rule. In 1910, it became the Transvaal Province …

… the Orange Free State despite the intervention of the British at the Cape . Despite having managed to retain his … of baSotho sovereignty lay in a close association with the British. As a result, in 1862, he wrote to the … Wodehouse issued a proclamation declaring Bautoland a British Protectorate. This was formalised by the baSotho on …

… Lambert's Bay is named after Admiral Lambert of the British Navy who did a marine survey of the Bay between 1826 … the Hotel in 1888. Lamberts Bay was used as a lay-up for British warships during the war of 1900-1902 and in 1901 the … Bay, HMS Sybille Gunboat which ran aground in 1901. (This British gunboat HMS Sybille was a 3400-ton twin-screw …

… first called Nooitgedaght, it was renamed Airlie, after a British officer, the Earl of Airlie, who was killed in the …

… South African Wars have left their mark on this Site too. British troops were Stationed in the Vicinity during the … 1436 m above Sea Level, and an old Stone Wall marks a British Patrol Path used during the War. Piles of Horseshoes, …

… and Pretoria. With his newfound wealth he commissioned British architect WT Vale to design him a house. In 1886, the … an important role during the Anglo-Boer Wars. In June 1900 British troops invaded Pretoria and requisitioned Melrose …

… of the Anglo Boer War .  During the war it was used by the British, as a Hospital. The finishing touches were done in …

… Committees Drift was a military outpost established by the British during the frontier war of 1819. The name …

… situated just North of Middelburg Eastern Cape. The British Department of War bought Farms in Middelburg district … period which terminated in 1910 between 12 000 and 15 000 British soldiers that were stationed at Grootfontein. The …

… by the Government, the property was requisitioned by the British Forces , under the command of Rear Admiral G.K. … up possession in the year 1800. At the end of the First British Occupation in 1803, the property with all the other … handed over to the Batavian Republic . In 1806 when the British Occupied the Cape for the second time , the property …

… In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George … the first “komediehuis” in South Africa. During the first British Occupation of the Cape the Public, and especially the Garrison, lacked adequate Entertainment. The British Governor, Sir George Yonge, authorized the Building …

… named in honour of: Earl Grey , who was the renowned British politician. However it would seem that the Town was … remembering that Pretorius had borne arms against the British !  A tentative name had already been fixed to the …

… wars of 1835, 1846, and 1851–53, the Mfengu fought on the British side and were granted lands in the frontier districts … , or black state in the lands granted to them by the British in the 19th Century. These were then were …

… was probably named in honour of John Centlivres Chase, a British settler who emigrated to South Africa in 1820, and …

… began to take on a more military aspect after the British annexation of the Cape Colony in 1806. After the … of increasingly bitter land wars. In 1811 and 1812 the British expelled the Xhosa people from the Zuurveld and … in January 1835, they began to fall back with he British on their heels. On 31 March 1835 the British invaded …

… in history, the town owes much of its early years to the British military and settlers as well as the Afrikaners who were farming the area prior to the arrival of the British. This History can be explored both in the town and …

… is the The Koppie Nature Reserve. The Historic old British stone fort, situated on Prieska Koppie, in the …

… (1899-1902), the city of Pretoria was captured in 1900 by British forces under Lord Roberts and the Transvaal became a British colony . One of the responsibilities of the colonial … served for a while as a prisoner of war camp for captured British officers (mainly from the campaign in Natal) and …

… Batavian Republic in 1798 and ceased to exist in 1799. The British handed the Cape Colony back to the Batavian Republic … 1803. However, in 1806 the Cape was occupied again by the British after the Battle of Blaauwberg. Thereafter the British controlled the Cape continuously until it became a …

… The history of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then Natal (now  … agent to the Native tribes of Natal, appointed by the British colonial authorities, orchestrated a system in his … gazetted. Aligned with the Christianisation mission of the British Empire, some parts of the locations were divided into …