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Title:'Mountaineers' as mantatees: a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong
Author:Gewald, Jan-BartISNI
Year:1989
Pages:78
Language:English
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:State University
Geographic terms:South Africa
The Cape
Subjects:military operations
history
1820-1829
theses (form)
Abstract:Critical reassessment of the events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong in South Africa on June 26, 1823. The author argues that the Battle of Dithakong, which is generally seen in connection with the 'African Mfecane', a process of social, political and military change internal to African society, can be explained without reference to the Mfecane. It was rather the result of a combination of the tensions that existed between and within the polities affected, coupled with the impact of the advancing Cape colonial frontier.
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