Henry Bartle Frere
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay. However, as High Commissioner for Southern A
1881 portrait by George Reid
Henry Bartle Frere, by 'Spy' in Vanity Fair, 1873
Southern Africa in 1878, on the eve of the confederation wars, Cape Colony Transvaal Orange Free State
Pro-imperialist cartoon showing Sir Bartle Frere vanquishing the "negrophilist" liberals of the Cape government, represented by MP Saul Solomon.
General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was a British Army officer who rose to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War, when an expeditionary force under his command suffered a decisive
Henry Bartle Frere
…rising of Kaffirdom against white civilization". The 9th Frontier War soon broke out. The Transkei Xhosa were defeated and annexed early in 1878, by Lord Chelmsford and a small force of regular and colonial troops. Frere appealed (February 1878) and received the authority from the Colonial Office to dismiss the…
Frederic Thesiger by Lock & Whitfield, c. 1877
Lord Chelmsford sketched by another officer at the Battle of Ulundi
Defeat at Isandlwana
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London