Controlling the Frontier: Southern Africa 1806-1828, The Cape Frontier Wars and The Fetcani Alarm

In this concise and engaging book, historian Hugh Driver examines the struggle to determine and stabilize the frontier of southern Africa’s Cape Colony in the aftermath of the British occupation in 1806. In troop movements arising out of the Napoleonic Wars, a close analysis is made of those units deemed appropriate for the inherited bush warfare of the eastern frontier, with an emphasis on Colonel John Graham’s controversial method of frontier control implemented in the wake of the Fourth ...