Xhosa War, Fourth

When the British enter the Cape in 1806, British troops are sent to help the Boer settlers.

The balance of power changes and in 1811 British and Boer operations begin to clear the land of the amaXhosa people.

About four thousand British colonists are stationed on the Great Fish River.The Xhosa had been expelled from the district between the Great Fish River and the Sundays river known as the Zuurveld, which has become a sort of neutral ground.

For some time previous to 1811 the amaXhosa, however, had taken control of the neutral ground and committed depredations of the colonists.

In order to expel them from the Zuurveld, Colonel John Graham takes the field with a mixed force in 1811 with his plan to use "A proper degree of terror" and in the end the amaXhosa are driven beyond the Great Fish River.

On the site of Colonel Graham's headquarters arises the town that bears his name.

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