Xhosa War, First, or Cape Frontier War
1779 CE to 1781 CE
The Xhosa Wars, also known as the Kaffir Wars or Cape Frontier Wars, are a series of nine wars between the amaXhosa people and European settlers from 1779 to 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
The wars are responsible for the amaXhosa people's loss of most of their land, and the incorporation of its people.
The competition between the Boers and the amaXhosa over good grazing land is intense, and skirmishes become wars.
After the First Xhosa War, the border is established between the Fish and Sundays Rivers.
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War between southward-migrating Xhosa and eastward-migrating Afrikaners erupts in December 1779 when the two groups meet in an armed clash near the Great Fish River, a result of allegations of cattle theft by Xhosa people.
The Afrikaners, mainly farmers, are known by the Dutch term, Boers, which will eventually come to mean any rural Afrikaner.