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.