Township housing around Makana's Kop, Grahamstown, South Africa

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Makana's Kop, surrounded by a girdle of township housing on the eastern side of Grahamstown, was the command post of Xhosa Chief Makana in the Battle of Grahamstown, in the afternoon 22 April 1819. The hill was the head of a 'bull buffalo' attack plan, from which two horns of warriors, breaking their spears to use as stabbing weapons, swarmed towards the camera to attack the 354 strong garrison at Grahamstown, then the main garrison town at the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony.

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Size: 6337px × 3964px
Location: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: .africa, battle, cape, colony, command, eastern, frontier, garrison, grahamstown, hill, kop, makana, post, town, townships, xhosa