On 11 June 1795 a British fleet sailed into False Bay to capture the Cape Peninsula, this ‘Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean’, to keep it out of the hands of revolutionary France. The Dutch capitulated after a brief, token defence, and the British stayed...
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Pooley, S. (2014). Fire at the Cape: British Colonial Rule, 1795–1900. In Burning Table Mountain (pp. 29–44). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415448_3
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