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Book Author: Coetzee, Colin Year: 1995 Title: Forts of the Eastern Cape : Securing a frontier 1799 - 1878 Place: Grahamstown Publisher: Colin G Coetzee This book on fortifications on the Eastern Frontier is meant to be a scholarly, authoritative, well-researched reference work, not anecdotal, on a neglected topic of South African Military history. The research material was mostly drawn from original British archival sources and works of contemporary writers, some of them actual eye-witnesses during the construction of some of the military posts. Aims were, among others, to indicate the exact nature of the forts, why they were erected where they were sited, how they related to the broader trends of frontier history and how their existence affected the lives of the British soldiers who manned them as well as those of the amaXhosa against and among whom they were erected. Link to WorldCat - find this book in a library near you Buildings linked to this book Bailie's Grave Post - Fort Stokes, c1835, Dimbaza, Eastern Cape. pp 510-514, 633 Beechamwood Methodist Mission Station, 1841, Willowvale, Eastern Cape. pp 571 Defensible Guard House, c1830, KwaMaqoma (Fort Beaufort), Eastern Cape. pp 240 dwg, 241 map, 243, 244 ill Döhne Post, 1861, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape. pp 521, 522-523 ill, 524 Fort Beechamwood, 1878, Willowvale, Eastern Cape. pp 571 Fort Brown, 1835, Fort Brown, Eastern Cape. pp 22, 268-273, 306, 316, 639 Fort Frederick, 1799, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 92-100 Fort Hare, c1847, Alice, Eastern Cape. pp 451-492 Fort Jackson, pre 1859, East London, Eastern Cape. pp 551-553 Fort Linsingen, 1877-1878, Komgha, Eastern Cape. pp 581 Fort Murray - Second, c1847, Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape. pp 442, 446-447 ill, 532 Fort Owen, n.d., Kentani, Eastern Cape. pp 648-649 Fort Pato, 1853, East London, Eastern Cape. pp 527, 528 ill, 529 ill Fort Warwick, 1878, Komgha, Eastern Cape. pp 581-583 Fort White, 1835, Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape. pp 201-207, 438, 508-510, 642 Governor's Kop Tower, 1844, Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape. pp 361 Middledrift Post, 1852/3, Middledrift, Eastern Cape. pp 524, 526 Old Powder Magazine (Star Fort complex), 1821, Bathurst, Eastern Cape. pp 292, 294 ill Post Retief, 1836, KwaMaqoma (Fort Beaufort), Eastern Cape. pp 226-229 Warden's Post - Fort Warden, c1835, Komgha, Eastern Cape. pp 192-195 People or firms linked to this book LEWIS, Griffith George. pp 325 et seq ROYAL ENGINEERS. pp All