The Fourth Frontier War between the Xhosa and colonists took place under the command of Commissioner John Graham. ... The headquarters of the Cape Regiment was then named Graham's Town (Grahamstown), after Commissioner John Graham in honour of his onslaught of the Xhosa in 1811. ... After the defeat of the western-Xhosa, the Cape colonial governor, Sir Harry Smith, exercised an extreme form of authoritarian governance over them, but the chiefs of the Xhosa openly defy some conditions of Smith's rule. ...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... Paul Smith estimated that about 19,000 men actually fought with the British against the rebels and about 20 percent of white Americans could be classified as loyalists. (Smith, 269) On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. ...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... Paul Smith estimated that about 19,000 men actually fought with the British against the rebels and about 20 percent of white Americans could be classified as loyalists. (Smith, 269) On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. ...

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Another primary source with similar but more extreme views would be John Mitchel. ... Given the limited help England initially gave and later withdrew, I believe there are valid reasons for John Mitchel's attitude post-Famine. ... Pelling also analysed John Mitchel and said that the views he (Pelling) posed were not in complete agreement to Mitchel's. Referring to his own views, Pelling wrote "That is not to say that John Mitchell was right, but rather that there is some truth in explanations which centre on England's brutal complacency." ... Elizabeth Smith, who was the wi...

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Smith reached the conclusion that a regular government needed to be established in order to keep peace among the mixed elements forming the population. ... Smith himself brought a military force against them and after a brief encounter at Boomplaats, the Boers were defeated and the crown's authority re-established and maintained from that moment until 1853. ... A month later, Roberts sent the British commander John French northwards to assist the city of Kimberley. ...

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