Word: capes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sanctioned this idea in the minds of the Boers for the last thirteen years. The policy of the Transvaal, bad as it is made out by the affirmative to be, has not endangered the interests of the English in South Africa. Mr. Bryce states that the Dutch of the Cape Colony were not disloyal to the English. He also states that if the people of the Transvaal acceded to the claims of the English, the country would sink to the level of a regular English colony. In conclusion, Jones said that if the Transvaal yielded to the demands of their...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Surface Geology of Cape Cod. Mr. J. B. Woodworth.--Two Recent Books. Dr. Jaggar. Rotch Building...
...coast during the Seminole war. He was later called to Boston and given charge of building the Cochituate water works. His later years were passed in travel through Egypt with Ralph Waldo Emerson and he finally settled in Boston. A month before his death Mr. Whitwell visited Quebee and Cape Breton, and returned a short time ago to Hancock, where he died...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Surface Geology of Cape Cod. Mr. J. B. Woodworth.--Two Recent Books. Dr. Jaggar. Rotch Building...
England's connection in South Africa began in 1875; up to that time South Africa had been a Dutch colony. In the early part of the nineteenth century, there was a good deal of trouble between England and the Dutch for the possession of the Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England...