Blue Berg – Britain Takes The Cape

The story of the Battle of Blaauwberg (1806) the important struggle for the Cape of Good Hope 202 years ago, is now available in English:
 
The 72nd Seaforths and 93rd Sutherland landed in Melkbos Bay on 6 January 1806 and in a lightning charge took the beach. Then General Sir David Baird unleashed his van, a full brigade of Highlanders, the 71st, 72nd and 93rd, in an exhilarating charge over the hot South African sands at the Batavian Dutch line. The result was an indelible British (even Scottish?) footprint on Cape Town, and this was the precursor for British imperial expansion in Africa.