La nazione britannica una storia / da George MWrong . ch soldati ri-girarono dall'India, alcuni coloni dall'Olanda, compsedi colonizzatori principali. Città del Capo in sé è stato rigorosamente gov-erned dagli olandesi, ma i coloni nel beyondit interno, che è venuto per essere conosciuto come Boers, ha vissuto una vita indipendente, E aveva poca considerazione per qualsiasi autorità esterna. Durante la guerra napoleonica, quando la Francia dominava Hol-Land, i funzionari indiani hanno sollecitato l'importanza per la Gran Bretagna di ofholding il capo come stazione sulla strada per l'East.Already in 1795 ci era stata un'occupazione temporanea e infine in 1806, l'anno dopo T

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The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ch soldiers re-turned from India, a few settlers from Holland, comprisedthe chief colonists. Cape Town itself was strictly gov-erned by the Dutch, but the settlers in the interior beyondit, who came to be known as Boers, lived an independentlife, and had little regard for any external authority.During the Napoleonic War, when France dominated Hol-land, Indian officials urged the importance to Britain ofholding the Cape as a station on the way to the East.Already in 1795 there had been a temporary occupation, and finally in 1806, the year after Trafalgar, a powerfulBritish fleet sailed into Table Bay, landed an army of 7, 000men, and after some fighting established British rule.For many years there were few British settlers, and thegovernors had the difficult problem of ruling a colonycomposed of alien Dutch, and of controlling the adjacentand warlike native tribes. From the first there were race SOUTH AFRICA SCALE OF MILES .-o ^-x^ ^|?H?:J^^ /BRITISH A V «? CENTRAT. CENTRAL! x4! AFRICA. THE GEOWTH OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS 575 troubles, and ever since South Africa has known no long-interval of peace. The Boer farmers, dependent upon native slave-labour, were half ruined in 1833 when slavery was abolislied inTte conflict British dominions. To meet the demands ofwith the Dutch philanthropists, who carried on an agitationin South Africa, against alleged Boer cruelty to the enslavednatives, the British tried more strictly to impose theirauthority upon the farmers, and the Boers, to avoid it, trekked farther and farther north. British policy waschangeful and unstable, while the Boers, who founded inthe far interior two states, known later as the OrangeFree State and the South African Republic, always knewwhat they wanted—independence, and the right to adojDttheir own methods with the negro tribes. The British ;were drawn into strife not only with the natives of (the country, Kaffirs and Zulus, but also with the Boers, jThes

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