The War of The Axe: 1847 by Basil Le Cordeur & Christopher Saunders

ISBN: 9780909079154 / 0909079153 -  The War of the Axe, 1847: Correspondence Between the Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the Commander of the British Forces at the Cape, Sir George Berkeley, and Others  by Basil Le Cordeur & Christopher Saunders. Published by Brenthurst Press, 1981. Hardcover (Ltd Edition, Cloth Binding). Used, Excellent condition. 287 pp.

In 1846 a man was caught stealing an axe in Fort Beaufort, a small eastern-frontier town of Britain's Cape Colony. The group escorting the thief was attacked by a party of Xhosa who killed a guard and released the prisoner. This incident sparked off hostilities which became known as The War of the Axe, or The Seventh Frontier War.

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