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Battle of Blaauwberg | |||||||
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Part of the Napoleonic Wars | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United Kingdom |
Batavian Republic First French Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Home Riggs Popham | Willem Janssens | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
5,399 | 2,049 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
189 wounded, 15 killed.[1] 36 drowned before the battle. | 337 "did not answer the roll call" after the battle.[2] Over 700 killed & wounded (letter from British commander Baird).[3] |
The Battle of Blaauwberg, also known as the Battle of Cape Town, fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but significant military engagement during the War of the Third Coalition, one of the Napoleonic Wars. After a British victory, peace was made under the Treaty Tree in Woodstock establishing British control over the Dutch Cape Colony. The Cape later became a permanent part of the British Empire following the Congress of Vienna that marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814.[4] By establishing permanent British rule over the Cape Colony the battle would have many ramifications for the southern Africa region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A bi-centennial commemoration was held in January 2006.
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