The Expenditure of a Million of British Sovereigns in this Otherwise Miserable Place: Frontier Wars, Public Debt and the Cape’s Non-racial Constitution

This article seeks to enhance the historiography of the Eastern Cape frontier wars by adding war profiteering to land hunger as a motive for settler militancy. Equally important however was the extent to which the exorbitant military expenditure of the Eighth Frontier War (1850–3) aroused the concer...

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