Cape Colony
noun
the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
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How to use Cape Colony in a sentence
Toward the close of the year the situation grew so alarming that martial law was proclaimed by the Governor of Cape Colony.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonEmigrants from Cape Colony occupied the Kaffir lands, which had become depopulated.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonIn the history of the Cape Colony many a boer had lost his flocks in this326 very way.
Popular Adventure Tales | Mayne ReidThis is still so in the north-western plains of the Cape Colony, as already remarked.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) | C. H. ThomasThey left Cape Colony years ago, to escape our laws, which they considered unjust.
South African Memories | Lady Sarah Wilson
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