Dick King, an English trader and colonist…

June 1841 CE

Dick King, an English trader and colonist at Port Natalrides into a British military base in Grahamstown to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban.

He had left eleven days earlier, traveling a distance of nine hundred and sixty kilometers (six hundred miles) to arrive on June 4, 1842.

The British army dispatches a relief force.

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Durban KwaZulu-Natal South Africa View → Grahamstown Eastern Cape South Africa View →

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Andries Pretorius View →

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Afrikaners View → Boers View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Cape Colony, British View →

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