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George Elphinstone

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George Elphinstone

Gender: Male

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British forces take Cape Town from the VOC

📅 16 September 1795

British forces took Cape Town and the Cape government capitulated, beginning the first British occupation. This changed the colonial administrator but not settler claims over Khoikhoi and San land...