Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet , in South Africa , administrative districts of Cape of Good Hope under the rule of Dutch East India Company . Founded in 1743 and 1786 respectively, they became centers of a frontier independence movement in the 1790s. With the continued expansion of colonial ranchers, the eastern boundary of Swellendam gradually moved from the Great Brak River to the Gamtoos (1770) in 1743 and finally to the Great Fish and Bushmans rivers in 1778. Graaff-Reinet carved from The turbulent black and white border zone of Swellendam and Stellenbosch was bordered by the rivers Bavaria and Tarka to the north-east and the Big Fish to the south-east. 1795 white residents' dissatisfaction with the policies of the outlying central government in Cape Town erupted in the declaration of short-lived independent republics at Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet. You were after their capture by the British at the end of the year back into the Cape Colony included .
Page 1 of 7 January 22, 1879, almighty Victorian England wiped out, at the foot of a mountain in South Africa , one of the most complete and humiliating military defeats of its history during the Battle of Isandlwana . The British counterpart of what the Battle of the Little Bighorn was to the Unite