Cape Colony
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Historians estimate there were nearly 40,000 slaves in the Cape Colony when slavery ended.
From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2023
Following, in a letter to Sir George Grey, governor of Britain’s Cape Colony, Moshoeshoe describes his reasons for going to war in 1858.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
At the University of Oxford, protesters have stepped up their longtime push to remove a statue of Rhodes, the Victorian imperialist who served as prime minister of the Cape Colony in southern Africa.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2020
Lady Grey was the wife of Sir George Grey, a governor of the Cape Colony in the eighteen-fifties.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019
On the way he explained that his name was Oliver Browne, "commonly called Poll," and that he came from Cape Colony.
From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert
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