"Roger Conroy" <rogerconroy.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well they were "troubled" enough to send an expeditionary force to the
> Cape of Good Hope to invade and takeover an insignificant Dutch colony.
Not quite.
In 1794/5 they took over the Cape to stop it being used as a French naval
base.
They handed it over to the Dutch East India Company, who promptly went
broke.
The Brits promptly moved back in for the same reason as before, plus a lot
of internal pressure inside Britain about the excesses of the slave owners
there didn't help.
As far as I know it wasn't actually a Dutch colony at that time.
Although Louis Napoleon may have claimed it.
But he was at war with the British at the time.
People forget that...
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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