Event Second Xhosa War

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Was a frontier war between Boer frontiersmen and the Xhosa people.

Chronology

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  • January 1790: The Second Xhosa War started when the Gqunukhwebe clans of the Xhosa penetrated back into the Zuurveld, a district between the Great Fish and the Sundays Rivers.
  • January 1794: Boer frontiersmen led by Barend Lindeque, allied themselves with Ndlambe (regent of the Western Xhosas) and repelled the Gqunukhwebe Xhosa from Zuurveld.