History of South Africa since September 1795 5 Volume Set

Volume 1: 1. Admiral Sir George Keith Elphinstone and Generals Alured Clarke and James Henry Craig, conjointly, commanders of the British forces, 16th September to 15th November 1795. Major-General James Henry Craig, Commandant of the town and settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, 15th November 1795 to 5th May 1797; 2. George, Earl Macartney, Governor, installed 5th May 1797, retired 20th November 1798. Major-General Dundas, acting Governor, 21st November 1798 to 9th December 1799; 3. Sir George Yonge, Governor, installed 10th December 1799, received letter of dismissal 20th April 1801. Major-General Francis Dundas, acting Governor, 20th April 1801 to 20th February 1803; 4. Jacob Abraham de Mist, Commissioner-General, 21st February 1803 to 25th September 1804. Lieutenant-General Jan Willem Janssens, Governor, installed 1st March 1803, capitulated to an English army, 18th January 1806; 5. Lieutenant-General Janssens continued; 6. Major-General David Baird, acting Governor, 10th January 1806 to 17th January 1807. Lieutenant-General Henry George Grey, acting Governor, 17th January to 21st May 1807. Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon, Governor, installed 22nd May 1807, retired 4th July 1811. Lieutenant-General Henry George Grey, acting Governor, 4th July to 5th September 1811; 7. Lieutenant-General Sir John Francis Cradock, Governor, installed 6th September 1811, retired 6th April 1814; 8. Lieutenant-General Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor, installed 6th April 1814, embarked for England on leave of absence 13th January 1820; 9. Lord Charles Henry Somerset continued; 10. Dealings with the Xosas from 1813 to the close of the war of 1819; 11. Major-General Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin, acting Governor, 12th January 1820 to 30th November 1821; 12. General Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor, resumed duty 1st December 1821, embarked for England on leave of absence 5th March 1826; 13. Lord Charles Somerset continued; 14. Terrible destruction of Bantu tribes during the early years of the nineteenth century; 15. Formation of new Bantu communities with which the colonists had afterwards to deal; 16. Major-General Richard Bourke, acting Governor, 5th March 1826 to 9th September 1828; Appendix; Index. Volume 2: 17. Lieutenant-General Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, Governor, installed 9th September 1828, retired 10th August 1833. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Francis Wade, acting Governor, 10th August 1833 to 16th January 1834; 18. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor, installed 16th January 1834, dismissed 20th January 1838; 19. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor continued; 20. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor continued. The sixth Kaffir war; 21. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor continued. Conclusion of the sixth Kaffir war; 22. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor continued. Abandonment of the province of Queen Adelaide; 23. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor continued; 24. Major-General George Thomas Napier, Governor, installed January 1838, retired 18th March 1844; 25. Sir George Thomas Napier, Governor continued; 26. Lieutenant-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor, installed 18th March 1844, superseded 27th January 1847; 27. Commencement of a great emigration from the Cape Colony; 28. Early English adventures at Port Natal; 29. The emigrant farmers in Natal, 1837 to 1840; 30. The Republic of Natal and its overthrow; 31. Natal in a transition state, 1842 to 1845; 32. Events north of the Orange from 1837 to 1843; 33. Events north of the Orange from 1843 to 1847; Index. Volume 3: 34. Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor continued. The seventh Kaffir war, called by the Xosas the War of the Axe; 35. Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor and High Commissioner, installed 27th January 1847, retired 1st December 1847. Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, Governor and High Commissioner, installed 1st