East Griqualand Commando information

East Griqualand Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as...

Griqualand East (Afrikaans: Griekwaland-Oos), officially known as New Griqualand (Dutch: Nieuw Griqualand), was one of four short-lived Griqua states...

Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km2 that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province. It was inhabited by the...

the Cape farmers for firearms, horses, and wagons. Griqualand East, officially known as New Griqualand was one of four short-lived Griqua states in Southern...

multiracial Coloured people. Most notable among these were Griqualand West and Griqualand East. The people north of the Vaal River in the South African...

was acting general for Griqualand West. In April 1900 Liebenberg was reinforced in North West Cape by the Krugersdorp Commando from Natal. British general...

The Torch Commando was a South African anti-apartheid organisation, born out of the work of the Springbok Legion, a South African organisation of World...

19th century and settled in Griqualand West. Later, they formed another independent state in Kwazulu Natal named Griqualand East, unfortunately losing their...

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Along with other socio-political factors, this led to the annexation of Griqualand West in 1873, and the South African Republic in 1877. The Transvaal region...

Griqualand East. East Griqualand was subsequently annexed by Britain in 1874 and incorporated into the Cape Colony in 1879. The original Griqualand,...

the Zulus. Bantjes documented daily in his journal the progress of the commando, from their start on 27 November 1838 until they reached their selected...

tensions subsided. In 1877, the state expanded by annexing Griqualand West and Griqualand East – that is, the Mount Currie district (Kokstad). The emergence...

princes competing with Prince Mpande for the Zulu throne. Three Voortrekker commando members were lightly wounded, including Pretorius. The year 1838 was the...

of British imperial interests. In the 1870s the British annexed West Griqualand, site of the Kimberley diamond-discoveries. In 1875 the Earl of Carnarvon...

in terms of the Sand River Convention, between a commando of the ZAR, led by Kruger, and a Commando of the Orange Free State. President Jacobus Nicolaas...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

prominent role in the forging of the South African Republic, leading its commandos and resolving disputes between the rival Boer leaders and factions. In...

£4000 and moved with his followers to the district later known as Griqualand East. On the abandonment of British rule, representatives of the people...

that led to the break in relations was a patch of territory called East Griqualand (which was situated between the main and eastern segments of Transkei...

South African border with Zimbabwe to the north, while, to the south and east, it shared a long border with another black homeland, Gazankulu. It is now...

flatter inland terrain. The Kommissietrek approached Port Natal from East Griqualand and Ixopo, crossing the upper regions of the Mtamvuna and Umkomazi...

Free State (1854–1902) South African Republic (1856–1902) Griqualand East (1861–1879) Griqualand West (1870–1873) Goshen (1882–1883) Stellaland (1882–1885)...

British Library Cataloguing. p. 415. Deneys Reitz (1929). "Chapter 25". Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. p. 298. ISBN 1417925841...

Commandant for the Marico district and led the Rustenburg and Marico commandos during the Second Boer War. Nicknamed Hamerkop, Snyman came to international...