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Britain eventually expanded its control over vast swathes of southern, eastern and western Africa by 1920. Learn about and revise Migration, empires and people c790 - present day with this BBC...
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- Wars and Invasions
In 1820, upon the advice of Lord Somerset, Parliament voted to spend £50,000 (£5,048,317 today) to promote migration to the Cape, encouraging 4,000 British people to migrate to the buffer area. These immigrants, now known as the 1820 Settlers, settled in an area they called Albany and grew settlements in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown.
These immigrants settled and established direct rule over the colonies in Africa especially in southern and eastern Africa. They planned to make Africa their permanent home. British settler colonies were founded primarily in South Africa, Southern and Northern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe and Zambia), and South-West Africa (Namibia).
24 Οκτ 2024 · Scramble for Africa, a phrase widely used to refer to the period from the late 19th to the early 20th century in which European imperial powers claimed control of most African territory.
By the 1870s, many European countries were looking to expand their control in Africa. At the Berlin Conference in 1884, the USA, the Ottoman Empire and 12 European countries divided up most of...
Great Trek, the emigration of some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers from Cape Colony in South Africa between 1835 and the early 1840s, in rebellion against the policies of the British government and in search of fresh pasturelands. The Great Trek is regarded by Afrikaners as a central event of their 19th-century history and the origin of their nationhood.
27 Νοε 2013 · In the decades before the First World War, British Africa included protectorates over theoretically sovereign states, a handful of West African coastal enclaves with Crown Colony status, settler colonies, the self-governing dominion of South Africa, and territories governed by anachronistic charter companies that belonged to an earlier imperial ...
