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Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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have both shared in this expansion; but thegreater credit belongs to the Unionists. Many a venturesomeBriton has found great wealth in these regions; but the historyof England in Africa also illustrates the more serious phase ofempire building, for much of this territory was purchased bythe war with the Boers, the most expensive single war in Eng-lish history. 539. Cape Colony and the Boer Republics. The Dutchfounded a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the days ofThe Dutch at Cromwell and held the colony till 1796 when itthe Cape. was seizecj by the English. Ten years later itbecame definitely a British possession. Cape Colony hadalready a considerable population composed chiefly of Dutchfarmers or Boers; the number was soon materially increasedby English immigration. The slow-moving Boer did not likethe more aggressive Englishman and there was friction in thecolony from the very beginning of English rule. The Boershad enslaved the native blacks in large numbers; but in 1834 596
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